Camp Douglas, Illinois largest training camp in Illinois land provided by estate of Stephen A. Douglas in 1861 now between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Parkway and 31st and 36th Streets, Chicago east side: parade ground and administration buildings south side: camp hospitals west side: prison camp 32 units trained here: 9 Cav, 51 IL Inf, 55 IL Inf first prisoners arrived in 1862, about 8000 ...

HAUNTED CHICAGO - CAMP DOUGLAS EIGHTY ACRES OF HELL IN A CONFEDERATE PRISON CAMP Camp Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, became a place of brutal misery to many Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Rumors of crowded and unhealthy conditions, along with death and disease, were widely circulated in the southern press during the war. The camp soon earned what many people would ...