Civil War Prison Train Wreck - Pike County, Pennsylvania
Posted by: 
unimoggers
N 41° 28.323 W 074° 55.043
18T E 506898 N 4591164
Near Shohola, there is a train "museum" there, too. What a mess this must have been. I highly recommend the website.
Waymark Code: WM1VFY
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2007
Views: 202
The reviewer for this waymark sent to me the following that I thought would be a good addition to the listing: Near the end of the Mini-Series "The Blue and Gray" they mention this wreck and as one of the characters is injured in it. The movie has the injured transported on to the Elmira Prison.
Marker Name: Civil War Prison Train Wreck
County: Pike, Pennsylvania
Date Dedicated: 1993/9/1
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 434 at N end of Shohola
Category: Military, Transportation, Civil War
Marker Text:
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, both injured and uninjured, were brought to Shohola where they were generously cared for by residents of the village.
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