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 ...

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 ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – One hundred and sixty years ago, 645 Winsor Avenue in Elmira housed a prisoner of war camp for confederate soldiers. Now, a new stockade fence sits on the site of what was ...

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 ...