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Creation Date

c1861-11

Dissolution Date

1865

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Organization

"Camp Douglas" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00018448, (accessed April 28, 2025).

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Organized at Chicago, Illinois, in the fall of 1861. Served as a Union Army recruiting center from November 1861 until March 1862. Served as a military prison for Confederate prisoners of war from March 1862 until November 1865.

Theodore J. Karamanski, “Camp Douglas,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, accessed August 19, 2022, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/207.html.
Kelly Pucci, Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Civil War Prison (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007).

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