There is a recent book that contains a great deal of info on Camp Douglas, its location (there is a small display on the original site), and the burials (including some that were buried in low ground beside Lake Michigan, and just washed away into the lake). Unfortunately, the book does not contain a listing of the burials, but you can find such a listing in the National Archives reprint of the 1912 War Dept. register of Confederates who died in Northern prisons (published by the NA as "Confederate P.O.W.s," 1984, reprinted 1994). This register does not show a Jefferson McElvaney, but it does have a Pvt. J. A. McElhaney, Co. C, 40th Ala. Inf., died 10/17/1864 at Camp Morton, IN, buried in the Confederate Section of Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis. The book on Camp Douglas is "To Die in Chicago," by George Levy, Evanston Pub. Co., Evanston, IL, 1994. The identifiable Camp Douglas graves were moved to Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, where there is a monument listing the names. Only a few graves are marked (and I think these must be memorial markers, since the actual graves and original grave markers are now under several feet of earth that was filled in there later). Geoff Walden Sons of Confederate Veterans Gen. Ben Hardin Helm Camp 1703 -----Original Message----- From: Vickye White <vickye@basinlink.com> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com <CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 11:46 PM Subject: [CW-POW-L] CAMP DOUGLAS, IL. >I would like information on where to find graves for Camp Douglas, Ill. >since the camp can no longer be found. The family we know had one member >there and possibly more. We are still hunting information on Jefferson >McELVANY. Is there a National Cemetery to honor those fallen there? If >anyone can help please let me know. Thank you very much. >vickye@basinlink.com > >______________________________