<p>Excerpt from The Elmira Prison Camp: A History of the Military Prison at Elmira, N. Y. July 6, 1864, to July 10, 1865P to the present time, no general history of the military prisons of the Civil War, either those of the North or those of the South, has been brought into print.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

The Elmira Prison Camp: A History of the Military Prison at Elmira, N. Y. July 6, 1864, to July 10, 1865 (Classic Reprint)

Biographies & Memoirs

Clay W. Holmes

Memoirs

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<p>A beautifully reprinted special edition book by Clay W. Holmes with a new appendix by Diane Janowski. 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. Diane Janowski is the current Elmira City Historian and keeper of the most accurate list of Confederate dead in Elmira's Woodlawn National Cemetery.</p>

The Elmira Prison Camp

Diane Janowski

New York History Review

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