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Elmira Prison was originally a barracks for "Camp Rathbun" or "Camp Chemung", a key muster and training point for the Union Army during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1864.
Jul 26, 2014 · Elmira’s Civil War prison camp operated from July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, incarcerating a total of 12,121 Confederates. Here are 20 facts about that dark period in the city’s history:
- Ray Finger
The Elmira Prison Camp officially closed in July 1865, but during its one-year exist- ence it accounted for the highest death rate of any Union prison camp, a distinction that made it a target of Southern criticism in the years after the war.
Jul 16, 1989 · Union officials ordered in May, 1864, that a complex of barracks at Elmira that had been used for three years to house Union soldiers be converted to a prison camp for captive Southerners.
The Elmira prison camp; a history of the military prison at Elmira, N.Y., July 6, 1864, to July 10, 1865. The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.).
Jul 1, 2015 · Before the Civil War, there wasn’t much to Elmira; it was a village, not yet a city. But, after the nation plunged into war, Elmira came into use as a depot and training ground.
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Sep 8, 2008 · The Elmira Prison Camp; a history of the military prison at Elmira, N.Y. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
