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

by David Keller and David L. Keller

Book Overview

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 northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626199116
• ISBN13: 9781626199118
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.8"