Another wave of 2,450 Confederate prisoners were sent to the camp in April 1862, Keller wrote. Nearly 30,000 Confederate prisoners were housed at Camp Douglas through the end of the war in 1865.

Post-war the camp was demolished, leaving history to soak into the ground that fostered it. Volunteering soldiers may have settled nearby. Only after the Civil War did a strong Black community ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.

The Michigan’s Military Heritage Museum moved inside a new building at 311 N. Wisner St. in Jackson, in 2021. This site was also known as Camp Blair, a Civil War Union Army camp named after ...

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

Reenactor troops pose for a photo during Civil War Camp Day Sept. 28 at Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site. By Jeanne Theismann Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. ... After lunch, the spectators left camp: It was time for war. The Confederate Army marched in uneven files down a wide, paved road.

FREMONT - A Civil War winter camp event, held at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums on Saturday, featured reenactors, a military band and demonstrations on how soldiers set ...

Juneteenth celebration in Detroit honors historic Civil War camp 00:47. June 19, 2025, will mark the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth. The holiday commemorates the emancipation of enslaved black ...