These fellows were captured during the Overland Campaign and were being taken from Camp Lookout, MD to the Elmira POW Camp. A freight train somehow got onto the track and there was a head-on collision. A couple of boggies (Iron wheels and axels) still lie at the bottom the steep ravine where the train crashed. Their bodies, plus several guards were placed in the dining room of the Shohola Inn which still stands today. BTW they make terrific Bourbon Old Fashions in the tap room.
Note the eleven mebers of the 51st NC listed.
Zane Grey had a house about 500 yards away, near a bridge over the Delaware built by the Roeblings who built the Brooklyn and Cinncinnati suspension bridges, two of the world's oldest.
Note the eleven mebers of the 51st NC listed.
Zane Grey had a house about 500 yards away, near a bridge over the Delaware built by the Roeblings who built the Brooklyn and Cinncinnati suspension bridges, two of the world's oldest.