Capturing Elmira: The photographers who documented a Northern prisoner of war camp

By MI Digital June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

By Richard Leisenring, Jr., adapted from his forthcoming book Elmira. The name is as recognizable to any novice Civil War historian as Gettysburg, Appomattox, or Andersonville. Over the years,

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