Woodlawn National Cemetery: Difference between revisions

	Woodlawn National Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	File:Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira New York.jpg
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Location	Walnut and Davis Sts., West Hill and Bancroft Rds., Elmira, New York
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Built	1864
Architect	Pierce and Bickford; et al.
NRHP reference No.	[[[:Template:NRHP Focus]] 04001117]
Added to NRHP	October 6, 2004

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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 2021, had over 11,000 interred remains.

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.

Notable monuments

The U.S. government erected the Shohola Monument in 1911 to commemorate a tragic railroad accident that took the lives of both Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War in 1864.
In 1937, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument by sculptor Frederick Sievers in memory of those Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned in Elmira.

Gallery

Confederate monument Elmira NY.jpg

Confederate Monument.
Woodlawn National Cemetery.jpg

Woodlawn National Cemetery

References

↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.

External links

National Cemetery Administration
Woodlawn National Cemetery
[[[:Template:GNIS URL]] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlawn National Cemetery]
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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.

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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 [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. As the [[Union (American Civil War)|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 States of America|Confederate]] prisoners, and many succumbed to exposure, malnutrition, and [[smallpox]] and were subsequently interred at the cemetery.
+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 States of America|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.