179th New York Volunteers

179th New York Volunteer Infantry

A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign

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chapter 16

Prisoners of War

Aiken's Landing	Aiken's Landing	Monitor Onandaga	Andersonville	Charles Johnson	Daniel Hazelton	Danville Prison
ElmiraPrisonFoto	Flag of Truce Boat	Howland Washburn	Railroads of North Carolina	Libby Prison, April 1865	Libby Prison
Libby Prison	Salisbury Prison	Salisbury Prison, Baseball in 1862	Escape Attempt	Salisbury Hosptial	Salisbury Prison

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

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