. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . A WET DAY AT CAMP DOUGLAS, NEAR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS At any period the sanitary conditions at Camp Douglas were not satisfactory. The groimd waslow and always flooded after a rain, as seen in this photograph, and stagnant pools of water stoodthere with no means of draining them off. The highest rate of mortality for any one prisonduring one month of the war was reached at Camp Douglas in February, 1863. Unused to therigors of the Northern climate, the Southern prisoners
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . A WET DAY AT CAMP DOUGLAS, NEAR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS At any period the sanitary conditions at Camp Douglas were not satisfactory. The groimd waslow and always flooded after a rain, as seen in this photograph, and stagnant pools of water stoodthere with no means of draining them off. The highest rate of mortality for any one prisonduring one month of the war was reached at Camp Douglas in February, 1863. Unused to therigors of the Northern climate, the Southern prisoners died like flies in their unsanitary mortality rate for this one month was ten per cent. Judging from tlie men shown m thisphotograph, some of the prisoners were fairly comfortable. The Confederate gray of some of the uni-forms can be plainly discerned. The pipes show that they were n<it denied the luxury of tobacco.
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