Elmira Prisoner of War Camp: The North's Answer to Anders...
Triebe, Richard H.![Elmira Prisoner of War Camp: The North's Answer to Andersonville](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/236/23637759/CHSBZCOP0323637759.jpg)
August of 1864 the Union Army pursued a policy of "Total-War" against the Confederate Army. What made this new type of warfare different was that it also targeted certain Southern civilians who were suspected of giving aid, food and information to the enemy. Many Northern officers felt the surest way to defeat the Confederate army was to destroy the will of the Southern people. If the Union army could threaten the homes of southern civilians i...