NRHP Reference # 04001117 Year built 1864 Burials Edward E. Gyatt | Phone +1 607-732-5411 Added to NRHP 6 October 2004 | |
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Location Walnut and Davis Sts., West Hill and Bancroft Rds., Elmira, New York Architect Pierce and Bickford; et al. Address 1825 Davis St, Elmira, NY 14901, USA Similar Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira Prison, Elmira Correctio Facility, Elmira VA Outpatient Clinic, NYSDOC Southport Correctio | ||
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Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery within Woodlawn Cemetery, which is in the city of Elmira, in Chemung County, New York. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 10.5 acres (4.2 ha), and as of 2014, had over 10,000 interred remains.
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History
In 1861, Camp Rathbun, near the town of Elmira, was established as a training camp at the beginning of the Civil War. As the Union troops who trained there were sent to their respective assignments, the camp emptied and in 1864 it was turned into the Elmira Prison prisoner-of-war camp. The facilities were not adequate to house the thousands of Confederate prisoners, and many succumbed to exposure, malnutrition, and smallpox and were subsequently interred at the cemetery.
Woodlawn National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.