Freda, Just do a google search for "Camp Douglas, ILL" and you will find MANY web pages of info. One such is: http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/campdouglas.html Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Freda Noble" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:22 PM 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]