More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago s Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield.
David Keller offers a modern perspective of Camp Douglas and a key piece of scholars.
Today, the hiStory of the Camp ranges from unknown to deeply misunderstood.
Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down in 1865.
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.
More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago s Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield