About 6,000 (minus the 1,500 unaccounted) Confederate, along with some Union, young men died at Camp Douglas in as crude a manner as the men I discussed yesterday. Albeit in many cases they died in Chicago's freezing cold and/or they froze to death so we have the possibility of a cruder death.
Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans are at least are aware of this, an insipid fact to swallow, Chicago's Camp Douglas cemetery near 67th and Cottage Grove - is the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere.
George D. Levy, researcher and author, is responsible for the uncovering of these ugly truths. Which in turn makes what I know about his Chemung Valley History Museum article and his second soon to come book, a really big deal.
Sheila Cull
Us Lucky Culls
"George D. Levy, researcher and author, is responsible for the uncovering of these ugly truths"
ReplyDeletetotally not true- the camp and activities were well known for over 150 years. just because you did not know about it, does not mean other people did not know. levy did not 'discover' anything