Woodlawn National Cemetery

Nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers are buried here — men who died as prisoners of war at the Elmira Prison Camp during 1864. Elmira had entered the war as a training and marshaling center for Union troops; when those barracks emptied, the federal government converted them into a prisoner-of-war camp. What followed was one of the grimmer chapters of the war. The cemetery, on Davis Street in Chemung County, holds that history without flinching.