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Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Camp Douglas, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville", was the largest Union POW Camp. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862 and is noteworthy due to its poor living conditions and a death rate of roughly 15%.
The death rate of prisoners at Camp Douglas was lower than at Andersonville and the conditions at Camp Douglas were better. [44] If any one camp could be called the "Andersonville of the North," it would more likely be Elmira Prison at Elmira, New York where the deaths per thousand prisoners were 241.0 versus 44.1 at Camp Douglas.
Pages in category "World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of current and former state prisons and minimum security prison camps in Michigan. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in that State. All facilities not otherwise indicated are facilities for men. Michigan State Prison (also called the Jackson Prison) was the first state prison, built in 1842. A larger ...
The 5th U.S.V.I. [n 15] was enlisted at the Alton and Camp Douglas prisoner camps in Illinois in March and April 1865 as a three-year regiment, then ordered to Fort Leavenworth on April 28, 1865, at the urging of Maj. Gen. Grenville Dodge, commanding general of the Department of the Missouri.
During most years, the division's units trained within their respective states; Michigan units at Camp Grayling, and Wisconsin units at Camp McCoy, Camp Williams, or Camp Douglas. [18] For at least one year, in 1937, the division’s subordinate units trained over 100 company-grade officers of the Organized Reserve 101st Division at Camp ...
Cahaba Prison; Camp Butler National Cemetery; Camp Chase; Camp Curtin; Camp Douglas (Chicago) Camp Ford; Camp Groce; Camp Lawton (Georgia) Camp Morton; Camp Randall;