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Camp Douglas: Chicago's Civil War Prison

By Arcadia Publishing
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By Arcadia Publishing
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Kelly Pucci explores the dark history of this historic prison, located only three miles from the Chicago Loop, that was used as a POW facility during the Civil War.

Thousands of Confederate soldiers died in Chicago during the Civil War, not from battle wounds, but from disease, starvation, and torture as POWs in a military prison three miles from the Chicago Loop. Initially treated as a curiosity, attitudes changed when newspapers reported the deaths of Union soldiers on southern battlefield...

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HistoryUnited States HistoryUnited States History - Midwestern Region19th Century United States History - Civil WarIllinois - State & Local HistoryUnion - Civil War History - State, Local & Territorial History