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This led to many charges that the prison camp was designed from the beginning to be not a prison, but a death camp. [5]: 27 The camp's first Commandant was Major Henry V. Colt (brother of the famous pistol maker Samuel Colt) of the 104th New York Volunteers. He was given charge over the prisoners because of an inability to serve in the field ...
A supermax prison, Southport Correctional Facility, is located 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Elmira. [citation needed] The facility was founded in 1876 as the Elmira Reformatory and run by its controversial superintendent Zebulon Brockway. Acting with rehabilitative aims, Brockway instilled strict discipline along the lines of military training.
The Shohola train wreck occurred on July 15, 1864, during the American Civil War on the broad gauge Erie Railroad 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Shohola, Pennsylvania.A train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train.
One of four suspects in the shooting death of an Elmira man in early 2023 will spend 20 years in prison after accepting a plea agreement.. Zemyuah Graham, of Elmira, was originally charged by ...
Jeff Murray, Elmira Star-Gazette June 12, 2024 at 10:15 AM One of four suspects charged with murder in connection with the January 2023 shooting death of an Elmira man has been found not guilty.
Waggoner, Jesse. "The Role of the Physician: Eugene Sanger and a Standard of Care at the Elmira Prison Camp," Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences (2008) 63#1 pp 1–22; Sanger reportedly boasted of killing enemy soldiers. Wheelan, Joseph (2010). Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison. New ...
One of four people charged in connection with the January shooting death of an Elmira man has been found guilty of murder.. Following a four-day trial that started Monday in Chemung County Court ...
He was appointed as the warden of Elmira in 1917. [1] In 1929 he was appointed as the acting warden at Auburn Correctional Facility following a riot. [3] [4] [5] He retired after being stabbed in his car by two prisoners attempting an escape in 1939. [6] He died on October 20, 1955, at the Arnot-Ogden Hospital in Elmira, New York.