. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE PRISON [h-5]. firtsmtB ♦ ♦ * During the first months the medical staff was inexperi-enced, and the camp was scourged by smallpox which Avas, infact, seldom absent for any length of time. Later, a new medi-cal officer brought order out of confusion, but the staff here wasnever so efficient as at some other prisons. A very expensivehospital was erected, paid for from the prison fund, whichamounted to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in1
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE PRISON [h-5]. firtsmtB ♦ ♦ * During the first months the medical staff was inexperi-enced, and the camp was scourged by smallpox which Avas, infact, seldom absent for any length of time. Later, a new medi-cal officer brought order out of confusion, but the staff here wasnever so efficient as at some other prisons. A very expensivehospital was erected, paid for from the prison fund, whichamounted to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in1865. Camp Douglas, in Chicago, was a large instruction andrecruiting camp, of which the prison formed a comparativelysmall part. The camp was on low ground, which was floodedwith every rain, and during a considerable part of the winterwas a sea of mud. The barracks were poor and conditions gen-erally were unsanitary. President H. W. Bellows of the Sani-tary Commission says, June 30, 1862, speaking of the bar-racks, Nothing but fire can cleanse them, and urges theabandonment of the camp as a prison. The place was notabandoned, however; and in February,
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