Named
after Senator Stephen A. Douglas, whose estate donated the
land, Camp Douglas originally served as a Union Army training
camp. After General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson
in Tennessee, it became a prisoner-of-war camp, housing close
to 30,000 Confederate prisoners. Albert Myers, a Union private
stationed in Chicago, painted this view looking east from
a hotel tower opposite the camp's entrance. More than 4,000
Confederate soldiers died at Camp Douglas; they are buried
at Oakwoods Cemetery on Chicago's South Side.
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