Andersonville today is a National Park honoring the death of Union soldiers who died there. Prisoners at Andersonville were given the same rations as their guards, all that a war-weary South could provide.

Compare this to Yankee treatment of Southerners at Camp Douglas. Prisoners died here because of greed and cruelty. Many Southerners froze to death on the banks of Lake Michigan deprived of the necessary blankets to keep them warm.

Prisoners died at Camp Douglas to a great degree because of greed, in some cases starving to death while their captors returned unused funds from their food budget. In other cases medicines were withheld as punishment. Yet today, even in Chicago, Camp Douglas is virtually unknown.

In modern day Chicago, little remains of Camp Douglas. The only monument is the one erected by Southern veterans at Oak Woods Cemetery.  Even their number of victims is disputed. Yankee records account for 3,775 deaths, while Confederate records maintain that 6,000 men died here.

If you are interested in learning more about Camp Douglas, the best account is 'To Die In Chicago' by George Levy. Published in 1994 by Evanston Publishing, Inc. Evanston, Illinois 60201, ISBN 1-879260-20-4