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Camp Douglas: Chicago's Civil War Prison (Images of America: Illinois)
Camp Douglas Chicago's Civil War Prison - Images of America: Illinois
Author: Kelly Pucci
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 battlefields. As the prison...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780738551753
ISBN-10: 0738551759
Publication Date: 11/28/2007
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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