Talk:Camp Douglas (Chicago)

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Tonight on the History Channel, there will be a program about Camp Douglas. I'll be paying attention to see what I can get from it. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 01:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 What time. 2 University of Chicago? 3 Map 4 Douglas Tomb site 5 Issues and suugestions

[edit] What time.

Dear person,

       what time does the program start on the histor channal?

[edit] University of Chicago?

The article states that seminary students from the University of Chicago provided humanitarian aid; the University of Chicago was founded in 1890, well after the Civil War. Perhaps instead these were students from the Chicago Theological Seminary, a separate institution?

-- I removed the sentence about University of Chicago. Maybe someone else can verify whether the Theological Seminary is the real answer.

It's the UoChicago. Pucci, K. (2007.) Camp Douglas: Chicago's Civil War Prison. Arcadia Publishing. 34. Senator Steven A. Douglas started the "first" University of Chicago with a grant in 1856. Goodspeed, T. (1916.) A history of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 13. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.72.180.231 (talk) 20:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Does someone have a good map of where this was? I was walking around the area, but wan't sure where it was. I don't know if there were ever any historical markers put up. There should be. --Kalmia 07:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Douglas Tomb site

tomb of Stephen Arnold Douglas in Chicago, Illinois located in the approximate area of the former Camp Douglas (POW concentration camp).

Photograph taken 8 October 2006 CST/UTC in Chicago, Illinois

[edit] Issues and suugestions

I'd like to see more on the "pre-POW camp" phase of Camp Douglas. It was an extremely significant training and mustering center in the early days of the war.

The article would be greatly strengthened by placing the blame for the deplorable conditions on named individuals, such as the camp commander(s) and senior officers or state officials responsible. As written, the conditions appear without any context. Scromett 20:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The cable documentary referenced in this talk page does go into that sort of discussion of which commanders were to blame for the deplorable conditions (I saw a while enough back I can't remember specific names). --Bobak 19:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)