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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CAMP DOUGLAS, NEAR CHICAGO In the foreground stands a Confederate sergeant with rolls of the prisoners in his hands. It was the cMsl.m, of the eni.tixes to choosea mess-sergeant from among their own number. These hundreds of men are a part of the thousands confined at Camp Douglas.The barracks «ere enclosed by a fence to confine the Confederate prisoners taken at Forts Donelson and Henry, and new barrackswere afterward built. The barracks were wooden buildings ninety by twenty-four feet, of which twenty feet was cut off for the kitchen.
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REVIEWS CO. WHERE CONFEDERATE PRISONERS FROM THE WEST WERE CONFINED In the remaining seventy feet an average of one hundred and seventy men slept in tiers of bunks. Camp Douglas was located onland belonging to the Stephen A. Douglas estate, and was bounded by Cottage Grove Avenue on the east, Forest Avenue on the west.Thirty-first Street on the north, and Thirty-third Street on the south. In 1911 the Cottage Grove Avenue electric cars were runningpast the old front, and the Thirty-first Street cros:,-town cars past the north boundary; the Camp was a residence district. >x& PRISONERS OF WAR By Holland Thompson, Ph.D. A-sxistaiif Pn>f(:s:\()r of Hl.ston/ iti the College of the City of Nezv Yorlc In this mass of nuiterial the man with a preconceived notion can iinilfocts to his Hking. ... In no part of the history of the Civil Waris a wholesome skepticism more desirable, and nowhere is more applicable afundamental tenet of historical criticism that all tlie right is never on on

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