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- Historian Holmes first published this book in 1912. He shared reports from witnesses, Confederate prisoners first person accounts, the story of the great tunnel escape, the importance of John W. Jones, and the notorious living conditions in the camp.
books.google.com/books/about/The_Elmira_Prison_Camp_a_History_of_the.html?id=km0_DwAAQBAJThe Elmira Prison Camp, a History of the Military Prison at ...
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 1, 2015 · The author, Clay Holmes, was an Elmira native and a young man at the time of the war camp. Later in life he wrote The Elmira Prison Camp, which Emerson said was “in large part because people...
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.).
Nov 14, 2017 · Historian Holmes first published this book in 1912. He shared reports from witnesses, Confederate prisoners first person accounts, the story of the great tunnel escape, the importance of John...
The Elmira prison camp; a history of the military prison at Elmira, N.Y., July 6, 1864, to July 10, 1865. Author: Holmes, Clay W. (Clayton Wood), 1848-. Note: G.P. Putnam, 1912.
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:
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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.
