ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR POSSIBLE CAMP DOUGLAS CONFEDERATE PRISON GUARD BAYONET PHOTO

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A rare cabinet card photograph of a Union soldier who may have been a prison guard at Camp Douglas which was walking distance to the studio address. It measures approximately 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches as a complete piece and is in near mint condition. See more details below. Thanks for Looking. Camp Douglas, in?ÿChicago,?ÿIllinois, was one of the largest?ÿUnion Army?ÿprisoner-of-war camps?ÿfor?ÿConfederate?ÿsoldiers taken prisoner during the?ÿAmerican Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Confederate prisoners pending their formal exchange for Union prisoners. Camp Douglas became a permanent prisoner-of-war camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865. In the summer and fall of 1865, the camp served as a mustering out point for Union Army volunteer regiments. The camp was dismantled and the movable property was sold off late in the year. In the aftermath of the war, Camp Douglas eventually came to be noted for its poor conditions and death rate of between seventeen and twenty-three percent. Some 4,275 Confederate prisoners were known to be reinterred from the camp cemetery to a mass grave at?ÿOak Woods Cemetery?ÿafter the war. The camp ran west four blocks from Cottage Grove Avenue to the present Martin Luther King Drive. ?ÿIts northern boundary was what is now East 31st Street and its southern boundary was the current East 33rd Place, which then was named College Place. By the end of the war Camp Douglas had three divisions: the eastern, near the lake, with post headquarters and parade ground, officers' quarters and barracks the southern, with hospitals and offices and the western, where the prisoners were housed. A?ÿtall observatory tower, opposite the main gate, and surrounded by fenced fields, gardens, trees, and houses, faced the public road in front of the camp. The entrance, like that of an old castle, was guarded by six soldiers with fixed bayonets, who stood in front of a gatehouse leading to a broad open yard paved with loose sand. Sources: Wikipedia and University of Chicago On Aug-15-13 at 08:40:57 PDT, seller added the following information: FREE! Sellers: Add a FREE map to your listings. FREE! Height (mm): 203.2 Width (mm): 381 Length (mm): 508. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-4868

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