Edition |
Revised. |
Description |
446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology of events -- The war capital of the West -- Troubles at camp -- Creating a prison system -- The Confederacy in Chicago -- Charges of mismanagement -- The Conspiracy of 1862 -- The iron rule of General Daniel Tyler -- Biological warfare -- Daring escape from White Oak Dungeon -- Cruelty under Colonel De Land -- Unfit to use -- The fall and rise of a commandant -- The beat of a different drummer -- What a child saw at Camp Douglas -- The puny boys of Summer -- Whether 'Tis nobler in the mind -- The long winter of the Confederacy -- The tower -- Winding down the war -- An end to cruelty -- Lost in Chicago. |
Summary |
Camp Douglas was built in 1861 as a Union recruiting and training depot, but by December 1864, it held over 12,000 prisoners of war, many of whom died of "starvation, neglect, cruelty, ... pneumonia, dysentery, and small pox."--Jacket. |
Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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Camp Douglas (Ill.) -- History.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Levy, George. To die in Chicago. Rev. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub., 1999 (OCoLC)606004883 |
ISBN |
1565543319 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781565543317 hardcover alkaline paper |
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