Camp Douglas: Chicago's Civil War Prison

by Kelly Pucci

Book Overview

Kelly Pucci explores the dark history of this historic prison, located only three miles from the Chicago Loop, that was used as a POW facility during the Civil War.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738551759
• ISBN13: 9780738551753
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.3"