Resources
Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation (CDRF) has created three sets of a traveling exhibit to tell the story of Camp Douglas. CDRF does not have a brick-and-mortar location. Other than archaeological finds and two historical markers indicating the site of the camp and the importance of the area, there is no physical evidence of the camp’s existence remaining today. This exhibit raises awareness of the camp’s significance in the U.S. Civil War as well as in the history of Chicago and the state of Illinois.
Each set of the Traveling Exhibit consists of ten retractable banners. The banners were custom-made and contain well-researched text, maps, photographs, and info-graphs. Information is presented in unique and creative ways to attract a variety of audiences. QR codes on the banners access web-based teacher resources, a bibliography, and a photo gallery. The banners are available for loans to institutions and organizations. The set of ten will be transported, installed, and taken down at local host organizations by CDRF. Contact Roy Malone at (224)999-2414 for more information.
Sample Banner 1
Sample Banner 2
There are many excellent books and articles available on the Civil War and the African American contribution to the Civil War. Below are a few with emphasis on Camp Douglas and the Civil War Prison Camps as well as the contribution of African Americans to the Civil War.
Bernstein, Arnie, The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm (Chicago’s Civil War Connection), Lake Claremont Press, Chicago, IL, 2003
Campbell, Thomas, Fighting Slavery in Chicago, Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln, Chicago IL, 2009
Camp Douglas News, Newsletter, Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation
Clausewitz, Carl Von. On War, Vom Kreig, 1832, Antatol Rapopport, ed. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968.
Cook, Francis Frederick, Bygone Days in Chicago –Recollections of the “Garden City” of the sixties, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1910
Donald, Herbert, Lincoln, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995
Doyle, Robert C. The Enemy in our Hands, The University Press of Kentucky, 2010
Doyle, Robert C. Voices from Captivity, University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Foner, Eric, The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slevery, W. W. Norton & Co. New York , 2010
Gillispie, James M. Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners, University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX, 2008
Haynie, I. N. A history of Camp Douglas, A Prisoner of War Camp at Chicago 1861-1865, From a Report by the Adjutant General of the state of Illinois, Volume 1, Eagle Press, Little Rock, AR, October 1991
Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally ‘Round the Flag Chicago and the Civil War, Nelson-Hall, Inc. Chicago, IL
Keller, David L. The Story of Camp Douglas, Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison, History Press, Charleston, 2015
Keller, David L. Analysis of Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War, Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2017
Keller, David L. Analysis of Five Factors Impacting Union Soldiers in Confederate Prison Camps During the Civil War and Analysis of Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War,, Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2018
Keller, David L. Comparison of Analysis of Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War, Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2017
Keller, David L. Military Prisons of the Civil War, a Comparative Study, Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2021
Keller, David L , transcription and annotation, Bagby, Robert Anderson “Civil War Diary 1863-1865,” Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation, 2013
Levy, George, To Die in Chicago, Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna LA, 1999
Miller, Edward, The Black Soldier of Illinois-Story of the Twenty Ninth US Colored Troops, University of South Carolina Press,1998
McPherson, James M. The Negro’s Civil War, University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL, 1965
Peckenpaugh, Roger, Captives in Grey, The Civil War Prisons of the Union, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2009
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Harper Perennial, NY, 1967
Pucci, Kelly, Images of America, Camp Douglas, Chicago’s Civil War Prison, Arcadia Press, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the Civil War, Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 1953 Da Capo Press, New York edition, 1988
Rerdkey, Edward S., Editor, A Grand Army of Black Men, Cambridge University Press, 1992
Starr, Stephen Z. Colonel Grenfell’s Wars, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 1971
Spear, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell, Military Prisons of the Civil War, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE, 1997
Travis, Dempsey J. An Autobiography of Black Chicago, Urban Research Press, Inc. Chicago, IL 1981
Turner, Bernard, C. A New View of Bronzeville, Highlights of Chicago Press, 2021
