The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison by David Keller

The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison

David Keller

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More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago s Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearl...

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