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Oak Woods Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery

Aerial View

One section of Oak Woods is known as the "Confederate Mound". A 46-foot monument stands alone, surrounded by cannon and cannonballs. Buried around it are an estimated six thousand soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy.

Camp Douglas was a prisoner of war internment camp near the 35th-street estate of Stephen Douglas, named for the late senator. Like all P.O.W. camps of its day, it was rife with communicable diseases - smallpox and dysentery. Conditions were appalling, and thousands died. A group of prisoners plotted to escape the camp and capture Chicago for the Confederacy, but were thwarted by Allan Pinkerton. By the end of the war, thousands had died and been buried in the North Side's old City Cemetery.


Placeoak woods cemetery, Chicago, Ill
Latitude41.7719729
Longitude-87.5993851
File nameOakWoodsMonument_aerial.jpg
File Size159.53k
Dimensions1032 x 570
Linked toElijah M Mitcham

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