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“Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century.”
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying like a gag. "And then the poor fellow was made to fall down and crawl around on his hands and knees like a dog, a laughing stock for Federal soldiers, spies, and camp followers," Bean recalled bitterly.”
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for valuables and weapons. The captives stood for a long time in ice and show on that grim December 5, numb and shaking, while guards robbed them, according to Copley. Chicago had now received prisoners from most major battlefields of the Civil War, except Gettysburg and Antietem.”
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
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