He apparently is unaware of the analysis by James M. McPherson and other Civil War historians showing that the letter, coming one month before Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from malnutrition, diseases and other causes.

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — Elmira’s history of the Civil War is expanding as plans to add a new structure to the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp museum will soon be a reality, as groundbreaking is ...

What to know The Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp plan to kick off a $1.5 million capital campaign to pay for a new Elmira Civil War Visitor Center.