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CivilWarTalk Presents:
Derek Maxfield
on his book
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp—Elmira, NY
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 8:30pm EST
In A Live Video Presentation
Derek Maxfield
on his book
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp—Elmira, NY
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 8:30pm EST
In A Live Video Presentation
Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed for only a year—from the summer of 1864 to July 1865—but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man. Confederate prisoners called it “Hellmira.”
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp—Elmira, NY, published by Savas Beatie last year, is part of the Emerging Civil War series. In this book, Maxfield contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed exchange of prisoners, and tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the prison camp in Elmira. In the end, he suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure.
Author, Derek Maxfield, is an associate professor of history at Genesee Community College in Batavia, New York. He holds a BA in History from SUNY Cortland, an MA in History from Villanova University, and was a PhD candidate at the University of Buffalo, where he is ABD. In 2013, Maxfield was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and, more recently, was awarded the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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