| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison. By Michael P. Gray. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001. xvi, 228 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-708-2.)

If Georgia's Andersonville prison was the Civil War death camp of the South, then New York's Elmira prison was its northern counterpart. Between February 1864 and May 1865 approximately 13,000 of the 45,000 Union prisoners confined at Andersonville died. From July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, roughly 3,000 of the 12,000 Confederates imprisoned at Elmira perished. The horrors of Andersonville are well known; those of Elmira, less so. Two important studies of Elmira have recently appeared, however. Michael Horigan's Elmira: Death Camp of the North (2002) is concerned with the prison's legacy of suffering and death and the reasons for it. Michael P. Gray's The Business of Captivity, the subject of this review, also describes the appalling conditions and hardships endured by the Confederate prisoners. But what distinguishes this work is the author's examination and analysis of the economic and social impact of the prison on Elmira and the surrounding area. . . .

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