Monday, June 26, 2023

Marker honors Union POWs briefly held at Lynchburg, Va., camp

More than 160 years after the first Union soldiers were held on the same soil as prisoners during the Civil War, a small crowd gathered on the front lawn of Lynchburg’s E.C. Glass High School on Sunday to unveil a historical marker, sealing the Virginia property’s place in Civil War history. The site was chosen as a transit POW camp in June 1862 because of its proximity to the railroad and its remote location. -- Article

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