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By Bill Coughlin, October 25, 2009
Civil War Prison Train Wreck Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Pennsylvania, Pike County, Shohola — Civil War Prison Train Wreck —  |
| On July 15, 1864, an Erie Railroad train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners and 128 Union guards to the prison camp at Elmira, N.Y., collided with a coal train between Shohola and Lackawaxen. About 48 prisoners and 17 guards were killed. Survivors, . . . — — Map (db m23631) HM | |||
| 2 ► New York, Chemung County, Elmira — Shohola Railroad Accident Memorial — |
| (Federal Side): Erected by the United Statesto the memory of the following soldiers, privates in the Eleventh Veteran Reserve Corps. Comprising the Union guard who were killed with their Confederate prisoners of war in the railroad . . . — — Map (db m32180) HM | |||