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The Elmira Prison Camp Online Library > Biographies

History is more than a list of dates and events. It is also the story of the human lives. This section of the Library contains biographical and autobiographical accounts of the men imprisoned in the prison as well as those involved in its operation.


Biographical Autobiographical
  • Buttons by Hudson Alexander
  • Ellis Fairbanks Davis: His Participation in the Battle of Marianna and Imprisonment at Elmira Prison by Betty L. Norem
  • J.P. Putegnat and Fellow Confederates Daring Tunnel Escape by Clay Holmes
  • John W. Jones (1817-1900): Woodlawn's Sexton by William S. Ramsdell
  • The Civil War: One Man, His Company, His Family and His Community by Wilford Murry Wilson
  • Recollections of a Confederate Soldier by Walter Addison
  • The Great Shohola Train Wreck by Frank Evans
  • The Diary of William Grambling by William Grambling
  • My Experiences in the Confederate Army and in Northern Prisons by John R. King
  • Nine Months in a Northern Prison by Sgt. G.W.D. Porter
  • A Soldier's Story: Prison Life and other Incidents by Miles O. Sherrill
  • Prison Experience in Elmira, N.Y. by Dr. G.T. Taylor, Co. C, 1st Al Bat. of Heavy Artillery
  • Recollections of Washington B. Traweek: Escaping Elmira by Washington B. Traweek
  • Getting Out of Prison by F.S. Wade, Elgin, Tx
  • Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac by Frank Wilkeson