Camp Douglas
| Title | Camp Douglas |
| View | Architect's Drawings: Site Plans 1 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | [Photographic copy of a plan] of Camp Douglas, one of the most brutal of all Civil War Prisons. It stood south of Chicago on land donated by the family of Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The bodies of an estimated 6000 prisoners who died in the camp are interned in a trenched grave at Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery, the largest Confederate gravesite outside the South.] |
| Subject Terms | Site plans | Camp Douglas (Ill.) | Maps | Prisoners of war--United States | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons | Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 |
| Photographer | Illinois Central Railroad |
| Photograph Date | Undated |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 15.8 x 23.7 cm |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-01436 |
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