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Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. 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. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Confederate prisoners (these were Union soldiers who had been captured by the Confederacy and sent North under an agreement that they would be held temporarily w

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  • Camp Douglas (Chicago) (en)
  • Кэмп-Дуглас (Чикаго) (ru)
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  • Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. 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. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Confederate prisoners (these were Union soldiers who had been captured by the Confederacy and sent North under an agreement that they would be held temporarily w (en)
  • Кэмп-Дуглас (англ. Camp Douglas) — американский лагерь на территории современного города Чикаго, Иллинойс, который в годы американской гражданской войны использовался как тренировочный лагерь, лагерь военнопленных и лагерь для условно освобождённых федеральных солдат.В конце 1865 года лагерь служил базой для расформирования полков добровольческой армии США.В том же году лагерь был расформирован и его движимое имущество распродано. (ru)
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  • Camp Douglas (en)
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  • Camp Douglas (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Confederate_Mound_cannon.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Camp_Douglas_(Chicago),_Harper's_Weekly_April_5,_1862.jpg
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Confederate_prisoners_at_Camp_Douglas,_Chicago.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Five_unidentified_prisoners_of_war_in_Confederate_uniforms_in_front_of_their_barracks_at_Camp_Douglas_Prison,_Chicago,_Illinois_LCCN2012646159.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Infantry_camp._71st._N.Y._Inf._at_Camp_Douglas,_1861_-_NARA_-_524509_(cropped).jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plan_of_Camp_Douglas,_1864-65.png
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