Thank you! So many have taken the time to send me info about Camp Douglas. I am grateful for each e-mail. Freda Researching my USA Southern families: Rober(t)son, Blakely, Wright, Solomon, Godbold, Sills, Thornton, Regan, Sims, Jones, Riley, Boles On Apr 24, 2006, at 3:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Robert L. Black, the brother of my gg-gf James M. Black, died at > Camp Douglas. You can see his name in the last column on a > memorial plaque at this web site: > > (When the photo comes up move your mouse to the lower right corner > and click on the icon that pops up for you to enlarge the photo so > that it is readable.) > > http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/oakwoods/confederate-names > /tablet002.jpg > > I read about Camp Douglas and cried thinking about what he must > have gone through. > ---------------------- > During the Civil War, Camp Douglas, originally constructed at > Thirty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue as a Union Army > training post, served as a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. > Between 1862 and 1865, the camp housed about twenty-six thousand > prisoners in temporary, wooden barracks. As a result of harsh > conditions, thousands died at the camp; they were buried in > unmarked paupers' graves in Chicago's City Cemetery, located at the > southeast corner of what is now Lincoln Park. In 1867, the remains > were reburied at Oak Woods Cemetery, about five miles south of the > camp. > > ...the Union prisoner of war camp that was located on the south > side of Chicago. It is estimated from cemetery records that 6,000 > Confederate soldiers died in the camp, and are now buried at > Oakwood Cemetery. The cemetery is located near 67th Avenue and > Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago. The burial site is considered to > be the largest mass grave site in the Western Hemisphere. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Freda Noble <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:22:26 -0700 > Subject: [ALMONROE-L] Camp Douglas, Illinois? > > > Does anyone have information about Camp Douglas? I just learned > that my Grandfather Alfred Bennett Roberson/Robertson was taken > there as a prisoner from Tennessee. > I have been told that Alfred Bennett walked home with his friend > John Thornton from Tennessee. Were the prisoners provided any > transportation from Illinois to Tennessee? I can't see the men > walking from Illinois to Alabama. > > If anyone knows of any info available on this prison that has been > called the Andersonville of the north, I would like to have your > sources. > > Thank you. Freda Roberson Nobl > Gualala Ca > Researching my USA Southern families: Rober(t)son, Blakely, Wright, > Solomon, Godbold, Sills, Thornton, Regan, Sims, Jones, Riley, Boles > > ==== ALMONROE Mailing List ==== > **** "Genealogy - where you confuse the dead and irritate the living." > Monroe County, ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~almonroe > Listowner Carolyn Golowka at [email protected] > > > > ==== ALMONROE Mailing List ==== > ****Do you have information that could be added to the Monroe > County, ALGenWeb Site? Email Carolyn Golowka at [email protected] > Monroe County, ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~almonroe > Listowner Carolyn Golowka at [email protected] > >