Civil War

The Civil War history book series compiles the best civil war history books, illuminating the battles, the politics, and the historical figures of the American Civil War. Read the never-before-told true stories of Confederate South Carolina’s civilians and soldiers. Step into the graveyards of the Andersonville Civil War Prison and Camp Douglas, where thousands of prisoners died. From the famous Battle of Antietam to the Civil War siege of Jackson, Mississippi, these civil war books bring to light one of the darkest periods of American military history. [View all Civil War Series books]
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The Story of Camp Douglas
The Story of Camp Douglas
$24.99
Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois
Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois
$21.99

The Story of Camp Douglas

9781626199118

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If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago.

More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down in 1865. Today, the history of the camp ranges from unknown to deeply misunderstood. David Keller offers a modern perspective of Camp Douglas and a key piece of scholarship in reckoning with the legacy of other military prisons.

The Story of Camp Douglas

Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois

9781609493288

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Southwestern Illinois played a fierce and pivotal role in the national drama of a house divided against itself. St. Clair County sheltered Brooklyn, founded by freed and fugitive slaves and a vital link on the Underground Railroad. Alton was the home of Elijah Lovejoy, gunned down defending his press from an anti-abolitionist mob, as well as Lyman Trumbull, who wrote the Thirteenth Amendment. After the outbreak of war, Alton's prison was packed with thousands of Confederate captives, a smallpox epidemic and the cross-dressing double agent Mary Anne Pitman. John J. Dunphy continues the story of the Civil War and abolitionism beyond the Emancipation Proclamation and Appomattox, seeking out the enduring legacy those struggles left in his corner of Illinois.
Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois