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

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]