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

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

David L. Keller

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FörlagThe History Press

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If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago. 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 no

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