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Pages: 256
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Pages: 258
Pages: 258
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-23 - Publisher: History Press Library Editions
More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago s Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldier
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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
Language: en
Pages: 454
Pages: 454
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Camp Douglas was built in 1861 as a Union recruiting and training depot, but by December 1864, it held over 12,000 prisoners of war, many of whom died of "starv
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Evanston Publishing