Elmira Prison Camp OnLine Library Government Documents | Submitted Information | Personal Information | Gallery | Links | Contact Information | Awards | Home What's New - March 24, 2002 Article by William Hesseltine, Elmira New York: The Shame of the Union . Account of Ellis Davis, The Battle of Marianna and Imprisonment at Elmira. Site Index Government Documents Submitted Information Personal ...

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Elmira Prison Hellmira Almost 25 percent of the 12, 123 Confederate soldiers who entered the 40-acre prisoner of war camp at Elmira, NY, died. This death rate was more than double the average death rate in other Northern prison camps, and only 2 percent less than the death rate at the infamous Southern prison at Andersonville, GA. The deaths at Elmira were caused by ...

Article from the Confederate Veteran (vol. XX (1912), p.327), 'Prison Experience in Elmira, N.Y.', by Dr. G. T. Taylor.