- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Location
- Long Island, NY
Elmira Prison in Upstate New York housed Confederate prisoners in 1864-1865. Nearly 3,000 prisoners died there in a little over a year.
I was reading the September 2017 issue of Civil War history today. It had a roundtable discussion by academic and public historians about Civil War incarceration. It is an interesting discussion and I recommend that folks read it in full, but I wanted to see if we could discuss one question it raised: Do we under-study Civil War prisons and the experience of captivity?
I am going to post a few remarks from some of the participants in the rountable to help inform the discussion, but i really hope folks will offer their own experiences and views.