Civil War-Era Prison Camp Building to Be Rebuilt
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:09 pm |
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A former Civil War prison camp in Elmira is going to be reconstructed at the original site, with plans to open it as a museum site, the Elmira Star Gazette reported. The building, which was in storage for many years, housed a prison from July 1864, where more than 12,000 Confederate soldiers were transported by rail. Nearly 3,000 died from malnutrition, exposure or disease.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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