There's an interesting related site: The John W. Jones House (apparently undergoing restoration at this time). Jones was a fugitive slave who came to Elmira and was a very active agent on the underground railroad (it is claimed that he assisted nearly 800 fugitive slaves) and sexton of the First Baptist Church in Elmira. During the Civil War, he had the job of buring the Confederate dead from Elmira Prison, and apparently did a very consciencious job in seeing that burials were well recorded (to the relief of relatives who came looking for their dead after the Civil War). His efforts, and also those of a regiment of (primarily) New York State colored troops who guarded the prison, are detailed in an article by Joseph A. Douglass, "The Ironic Role of African Americans in the Elmira, New York Civil War Prison Camp, 1964-1865," in AFRO-AMERICANS IN NEW YORK HISTORY AND LIFE, Vol. 23, no. 1 (January 1999), 7-24. Christopher Densmore University Archives University at Buffalo 420 Capen Hall Box 602200 Buffalo, New York 14260-2200 Voice: 716-645-2916 Fax: 716-645-3714 E-Mail: [log in to unmask]