Where in Chicago is "Camp Douglas"?

Question

And is there a memorial to those who died there?

Answer 1

Memorial

http://www.rawls.net/CampDouglas2.htm

http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/oakwoods/confederate2.html

The above have good photos this is at Oak Woods Cemetery
1035 East 67th Street
Chicago, IL
60637

Answer 2

I am not sure if there is a memorial to the Condederate prisoners of war who died there but I know that Camp Douglas was located 4 miles west of Chicago.

Answer 3

Why don't you organize a movement for the Government to apologize and for recognition of their bravery and sacrifice? It would great publicity for you say for college and if you are in school extra credit!

I know you will not believe this but there has all ready been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York).

The official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans. The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books. One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.

During the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."

One Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.

The story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented. There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs. The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners.

The North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange. Again, the North refused to do so. They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.

These men and their relatives would thank-you! God Bless You and Our Southern People.

Answer 4

It was located on the south side just east of the intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue and 35th Street. No monument just a condo development.