Plan of U.S. military prison, Elmira, N.Y

"Map made by David J. Coffman, born in 1839 in Luray, [Page] County, Va. Served in Co. D., 7th Virginia Calvary (sic). This map made while he was a prisoner of war at Elmira, N.Y., Military Prison."
Accompanied by a copy of Coffman's Civil War service record (22 x 28 cm.), stating he enlisted Apr. 1, 1862 in Luray, Virginia, was captured May 20, 1864, in Bowling Green, Virginia, and released June 27, 1865, Elmira, New York.
This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
Use of watercolors and a small, printed explanation of the colors, which was pasted onto the map, would indicate map was completed sometime after the war and Coffman's release.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
C.1, 1969, Mrs. David W. Crossland, gift, ALE; c.2, 1970, photocopy, LVA, ALE.