Camp Douglas

And actually in Chicago, it's quite interesting.

There's Camp Douglas, which is a big prisoner of war camp just outside Chicago for Confederate prisoners.

Now, the camp warden of that or the superintendent didn't let kind of aid prisoners.

charities and people in.

However, from 1864, the commander of that camp, his daughter went to one of the Sisters of Mercy schools.

And so actually, the Sisters of Mercy, using that personal connection, were the only kind of, as far as I can tell, the only order that were actually allowed into Camp Douglas

to kind of aid the Confederate prisoners of war.

So they're allowed in different places.

The other one, he from prison, too? Yeah.

Camp Butler first, then Camp Douglas.

You're talking about military prisons, Captain?

Union Army prisons for Confederate captives.

And, uh, it destroyed a lot of those, so it was difficult at some point to tell who was, who was left and buried where, and there was just a lot of confusion, and probably money as well.

Um, there was also a large potter's field out there, so a large unmarked grave of several thousand Confederate soldiers who had been at a Confederate POW camp located on what is now, like, the near South Side of Chicago, uh, called Camp Douglas.

And they're, m- many of them are still buried there.

And there are other plots, like, for instance, near Reid Dunning, uh, Memorial, where there was a, a poor house and an institution out there where there are also, there, there had also been about 38,000 people buried out there.

About 40 operatives come down from Canada, and they also plan for a massive prison break.

one of the POW camps, Camp Douglas, which would have tied down tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, potentially, of Union troops, and had succeeded.

The plan is neutralized because the Copperheads are absolutely convinced that they will win the election.

They back down.