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This outstanding image offers the viewer a look into the past as three young men identified as Reb Prisoners Camp Douglass Ill. pose before the lens of an unknown photographer. Well let the image speak for itself except to point out the distinctive shirt of the Louisiana Tiger seated in the center and advise that the CDV is in excellent condition with sharp focus and good contrast. It has been written that the Confederacy had its Andersonville and the Union, Camp Douglas. Named for Steven A Douglas the Camp was located near Chicago where it began as a sprawling training facility for Union Soldiers. That was before the surrender of Ft. Donelson, February 16, 1862 and the resulting conversion of the training camp to prison camp to hold the influx of Confederate soldiers. The conditions at Camp Douglas would become horrendous. Here disease, hunger, poor sanitation and lack of adequate clothing would match anything Andersonville offered its Yankee counterparts with the exception of the miserably cold weather endured by the incarcerated of Camp Douglass. By January and February 1863 an average of 18 prisoners died every day, for a death rate of 10 percent a month. An especially desirable photograph, the likes of which is seldom seen on the collectors market.
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