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- Although the Civil War started in 1861, the Elmira camp didn’t open until 1864. In fact, prison camps in general didn’t start till later in the war.
www.ithaca.com/news/when-hell-was-in-elmira-civil-war-prison-camp-150-years-later/article_72dae506-1f7f-11e5-ab7a-83357cae3961.htmlWhen Hell Was in Elmira: Civil War Prison Camp 150 Years ...
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.
When New York's Elmira Reformatory opened in 1876, it rejected 19th century penology's holy trinity of silence, obedience and labor. Elmira's goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical.
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.
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...
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5 days ago · Union 1864-1865. Elmira, New York. The most notorious camp of the North was located in Elmira, New York where one of the 4 camps that made up the western New York Union Army rendezvous was refitted for use as a prisoner of war camp.
Sep 20, 2020 · Elmira, a Union prisoner of war camp located in New York, opened in July 1864 after many other Union prisons were at capacity. Almost 3,000 Confederate POWs...
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Jul 1, 2015 · It was July 1865, and these were the last survivors leaving “Hellmira,” the notorious Civil War prison camp on the banks of the Chemung River. This month—on either July 10 or July 11, depending...
