179th New York Volunteer Infantry

A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign

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Prisoners of War
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ElmiraPrisonFoto
Title: [Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York] Creator(s): Moulton & Larkin, photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1864 and 1865] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount: albumen ; 6.0 x 10.1 cm (mount) Summary: Photograph shows rows of tents within stockade at Camp Rathbun, which was converted to a prison camp for Confederate soldiers in 1864. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33993 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 13301, no. 284 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; Cal Packard; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:060). Subjects: Elmira Prison (Elmira, N.Y.)--1860-1870. United States.--Army--Facilities--New York (State)--Elmira--1860-1870. Prisoners of war--Confederate--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Detention facilities--Union--New York (State)--Elmira. Format: Albumen prints--1860-1870. Cartes de visite--1860-1870. Collections: Civil War Miscellaneous Items in High Demand Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647765/