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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.
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%.
Camp Douglas was an internment camp for Prisoners of War (POW) during World War II, located in the city of Douglas, Wyoming, United States. Between January 1943 and February 1946 in the camp housing first Italian and then German prisoners of war in the United States .
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 ...
Pages in category "American Civil War prison camps" ... Camp Douglas (Chicago) Camp Ford; Camp Groce; Camp Lawton (Georgia) Camp Morton; Camp Randall; Camp Sorghum;
At Camp Douglas, they began a program to stock the camp with the “right kind” of magazine and periodicals, referring to those with American content. [5] English language and American History classes were the most popular. [5] However, at Camp Hill Field, Italian prisoners who ran the programs expressed hatred for American propaganda. [5]
Grierson's prisoners were shipped by steamer to the Union prison camp at Alton, Illinois, where the claims of the "galvanized Yankees" that they desired restoration to their original units were investigated. Major General Dodge recommended on March 5, 1865, that all the former Union soldiers as well as a number of Confederate troops be enlisted ...
Mulligan was commander of Camp Douglas, a prisoner of war camp in Chicago, from February 25, 1862, to June 14, 1862. [5] The camp had been constructed as a short term training camp for Union soldiers but was converted to a prisoner of war camp for captured Confederate soldiers after the fall of Fort Donelson, on February 16, 1862. [6]