Elmira’s history of the Civil War is expanding as plans to add a new structure to the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp museum ...

A group that works to publicize and remember an infamous chapter in Elmira's history — a Civil War prison camp where ...

Officials said they're building a new Visitor Center, but they'll need the community's help in raising enough money to build and expand on the historic attraction.

Elmira’s Civil War prison camp operated from July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, incarcerating a total of 12,121 Confederates. Here are 20 facts about that dark period in the city’s history to ...

The 150-year-old building is to be reconstructed on Elmira Water Board property where the prison camp was located. It will be placed just east of a former pumping station site at 643 Winsor Ave.

Elmira College is teaming with the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp to present an inaugural Civil War symposium Aug. 4-6 at the college and other locations, officials announced Wednesday.

One of the finest Civil War histories I've ever read just crossed my desk -- Michael Horigan's recently published "Elmira: Death Camp of the North." The subject is Camp Chemung, 32 acres in Elmira ...

Come June, Elmira will finally acknowledge its dark history. “Helmira,” in part, will be reborn. For decades, rumors have swirled that lumber from one of the Elmira prisoner of war camp ...

"The Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War," edited by Patricia L. Faust, tells us that when the U.S. War Department learned in May, 1864, there were vacant barracks in Elmira that had been ...

"Police officers should not have to choose between taking care of their children and staying in the police force," Gillibrand ...