Prisoners who died at the camp are buried at Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira. Elmira’s Civil War prison camp operated from July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, incarcerating a total of 12,121 ...

The subject is Camp Chemung, 32 acres in Elmira in upstate New York, which had the highest death rate among Union prison camps. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV ...

Faust, tells us that when the U.S. War Department learned in May, 1864, there were vacant barracks in Elmira that had been used as a rendezvous point earlier in the war, men were sent to encircle the ...

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The camp is now a National Historic Site. Meanwhile, the prison camp in Elmira has been largely forgotten. Today, the riverside site is little more than an unremarkable patch of dandelion-speckled ...

All our camps are not located in front of the rebel quarters, but on the two sides of the fence inclosing the rebel prison, and the remainder across the road from the front of the same.

The last prison escape in New York state took place in July 2003, when two convicted murderers fled the maximum-security Elmira Correctional Facility, only to be recaptured two days later.

Like DePratter, one of Long's ancestors also was imprisoned at Elmira. Prisoners were held ... but they were better fed than at many prison camps." The Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum ...

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 to ...