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« on: July 05, 2008, 12:00:59 pm »
I enjoyed privious postings regarding Confederate POW camps, and being new here - I thought I would share this bit of information with everyone.

Did you know that New York State had a total of 15 Confederate Prisoner of War camps?

One of the most famous, which most of us are aware of was Elmira, another was outside of Albany, NY - better known as the NY State Penn (which still exist today). They held mostly political prisoners.

Believe it or not -13 prisons alone where in and around the NY City area, such as Ft Lafayette, Fort Columbus, Fort Wood (be the way still exist today - you wouldnt know it, but it was last used for military used as a POW camp, and now is the very base of the Statue of Liberty).

If anyone is interested in more info - feel free to contact me
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2008, 02:14:27 pm »
Quote from: CmdrSteve on July 05, 2008, 12:00:59 pm
I enjoyed privious postings regarding Confederate POW camps, and being new here - I thought I would share this bit of information with everyone.

Did you know that New York State had a total of 15 Confederate Prisoner of War camps?

One of the most famous, which most of us are aware of was Elmira, another was outside of Albany, NY - better known as the NY State Penn (which still exist today). They held mostly political prisoners.

Believe it or not -13 prisons alone where in and around the NY City area, such as Ft Lafayette, Fort Columbus, Fort Wood (be the way still exist today - you wouldnt know it, but it was last used for military used as a POW camp, and now is the very base of the Statue of Liberty).

If anyone is interested in more info - feel free to contact me
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Steve Grin
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You are very welcome to my discussion forum about the American civil war, i hope that you will find this place intresting.
I did not know about the camps do you have a list of the name on them.
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 01:49:46 pm »
Hello everyone,

If anyone is interested, I do have a database, regarding those Confederates who did died while POW, in NY States various POW camps.

I just finished detailed research regarding the Confederate dead from Elmira - where over 3,000 CS are buried

I will having this this research published shortly

I will be tackling other northern POW camps in the near future

If I can be of any service to anyone, please feel free to contact me

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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2008, 03:56:57 pm »
Quote from: CmdrSteve on July 08, 2008, 01:49:46 pm
Hello everyone,

If anyone is interested, I do have a database, regarding those Confederates who did died while POW, in NY States various POW camps.

I just finished detailed research regarding the Confederate dead from Elmira - where over 3,000 CS are buried

I will having this this research published shortly

I will be tackling other northern POW camps in the near future

If I can be of any service to anyone, please feel free to contact me

Take care,
Steve
Hello Steve
I are intrested of your database. I wonder if it is ok for you to publish that database on my site and give you all credit for the work.
You can send it to me at tagate@gmail.com
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2008, 01:50:52 am »
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I just finished detailed research regarding the Confederate dead from Elmira - where over 3,000 CS are buried.
This later quote doesn't seem to quite match this earlier one:
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They held mostly political prisoners.
Would appreciate it.

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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2008, 06:10:21 pm »
Hello Ole



At Elmira, 3000 Confederate soldiers died while prisoners in a 13 month period, as I mentioned in my 1st posting

in the same paragraph I mentioned there were 15 POW camps in NY State, on of which was the Albany State Penn, which mostly held political prisoners

I hope that cleared up any confusion

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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2008, 07:32:36 pm »
Quote from: CmdrSteve on July 31, 2008, 06:10:21 pm
Hello Ole



At Elmira, 3000 Confederate soldiers died while prisoners in a 13 month period, as I mentioned in my 1st posting

in the same paragraph I mentioned there were 15 POW camps in NY State, on of which was the Albany State Penn, which mostly held political prisoners

I hope that cleared up any confusion

Regards,
Steve
Hi Steve
I are intrested of the info you have about New York States - POW camps.
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