Camp Douglas
| Title | Camp Douglas |
| View | Architectural Drawing: Site plans 1 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | Site plan (photograph copy) of Camp Douglas, one of the most inhumane of all Civil War Prisons. It stood south of Chicago on land donated by the family of Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The bodies of an estimated 6,000 prisoners who died in the camp are interred in a trench grave at Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery, the largest Confederate gravesite outside the South. |
| Subject Terms | Camp Douglas (Illinois) | Prisoners of war--United States | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons | Site plans | Architectural drawings (Visual works) |
| Photographer | Illinois Central Railroad |
| Photograph Date | Undated |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 15.8 x 23.7 cm |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-01436 |
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