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353:, Union Army commissary general of prisoners, who had considerable authority over Union prison camps, after visiting the camp: "Sir, the amount of standing water, unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of unventilated and crowded barracks, of general disorder, of soil reeking miasmatic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles, is enough to drive a sanitarian to despair. I hope that no thought will be entertained of mending matters. The absolute abandonment of the spot seems to be the only judicious course. I do not believe that any amount of drainage would purge that soil loaded with accumulated filth or those barracks fetid with two stories of vermin and animal exhalations. Nothing but fire can cleanse them." Hoffman already had made requests for improvements in the camp, but he kept the report secret because he did not want to take a position contrary to that taken by any superior such as Quartermaster General Meigs, who opposed costly improvements to the camp. The camp was such an unhealthy place that one of Colonel Tucker's sons who served with him at the camp, Captain Lansing Tucker, became ill and died in the summer of 1862. 398: 136: 103: 338:
escaped on July 23, 1862, Tucker arrested several citizens who he believed aided the escapees. In addition, he brought in Chicago police to search the camp. This action caused much lasting animosity from the prisoners because the police confiscated many of the prisoners' valuables. The police also confiscated five pistols and many bullets. Twenty of the escapees were recaptured within two weeks.
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occupancy by the prisoners. The paroled soldiers were fortunate to have only about a two-month stay. They were able to tolerate the conditions somewhat better than the previous Confederate prisoners could because the Union parolees were more warmly dressed and in better physical condition. The damp conditions and bad food still took their toll on the parolees. By November, forty soldiers of the
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army sent sick prisoners to the camp, where there were no medical facilities at the time, even though army staff were specifically warned not to do so. On February 23, 1862, the Union troops vacated the camp except for an inadequate force of about 40 officers and 469 enlisted men left to guard the prisoners. About 77 escapes were recorded at Camp Douglas by June 1862.
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February 1862. Colonel Tucker's job as camp commander was not easy even before the camp was converted to a prison camp. He had to use increasingly hard measures to curb considerable drunk and disorderly conduct by recruits in camp and in the city of Chicago, where the soldiers abused pass privileges.
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Conditions at the camp improved that summer as almost all the prisoners left by September 1862. About one thousand prisoners took an oath of allegiance to the United States and were freed. All prisoners who were not too ill to travel were exchanged due to implementation of the July 22, 1862 Dix–Hill
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Even though he remained in the Illinois militia and was not taken into federal service, Colonel Tucker returned to command the camp on June 19, 1862. To deal with local civilian sympathizers who might be aiding escapes, Colonel Tucker declared martial law on July 12, 1862. When twenty–five prisoners
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Governor Yates put Colonel Joseph H. Tucker, commanding the 60th Regiment, Illinois State Militia, in charge of building the camp and appointed Tucker as the camp's first commander. State militia troops called the Mechanics Fusiliers, who were apprentice and journeyman carpenters, built the barracks
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prisoners captured by the Union Army. Tucker was commander of the camp from the start of its construction in October 1861 until September 28, 1862, except between February 26, 1862, and June 19, 1862. During this time, the camp was used as a training facility and had its initial use as a prisoner of
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prisoner cartel between the Union and Confederate armies. By October 6, 1862, the few remaining prisoners who had been too ill to leave earlier also were gone. Through September 1862, 980 Confederate prisoners and 240 Union Army trainees and guards had died at Camp Douglas, almost all from disease.
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relieved Colonel Tucker of command of the camp. Under Tyler's command these Union soldiers had to live under similar conditions to those endured by the Confederate prisoners from Fort Donelson. In fact, the conditions were worse because the camp had become filthy and even more run down during its
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The first Confederate prisoners of war arrived at Camp Douglas on February 20, 1862, to find a camp but no real prison. They were housed for their first few days at the camp in the White Oak Square section along with newly–trained Union soldiers about to depart for service at the front. The
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ran within a few hundred yards of the site. Fuller was not an engineer and did not realize that the site was a poor choice for a large camp because of its wet, low–lying location. The camp initially lacked adequate medical facilities, sewers, latrines and drainage and when the camp opened, it had
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Despite its name, the United States Sanitary Commission was a volunteer civilian charity, not a government agency, and except for its actions in assisting the army to improve sanitary conditions at camps, hospitals and prisons, its role was only advisory. Faust, Patricia L. "Sanitary Commission,
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Kelly, 1989, p. 20 says that Tucker was ordered to Springfield on January 28, 1862 and that Colonel Walter G. Brackett, 9th Illinois Cavalry, was camp commander between January 28, 1862 and February 14, 1862 when Colonel Mulligan took command. Kelly says that Tucker took command for several days
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The first group of prisoners was treated reasonably well under the circumstances and despite the inadequacy of the grounds, barracks and sewer and water systems, they were given clothing and enough to eat, although not a balanced diet. They received enough to eat, cooking stoves and utensils and
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retroactively approved Lincoln's actions and authorized another one million three–year volunteers in July 1861. The states and localities had to organize and equip the volunteer regiments until late in 1861 when the federal government became sufficiently organized to take over the project.
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in the spring of 1862, Camp Douglas housed 8,962 Confederate prisoners. Conditions at the camp further deteriorated with the overcrowding. Escapes increased. Some escapes were aided by Southern sympathizers in Chicago and others were facilitated by lax administration by Colonel Mulligan and the
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By November 15, 1861, Camp Douglas housed about 4,222 volunteer soldiers from 11 regiments. In an ominous preview of the effects of living at the camp on the future prisoners, the recruits, who were in better physical condition than the later prisoners, suffered forty-two deaths from disease by
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in October and November 1861. Regular troops had to suppress rioting construction troops and restore order to the camp when the State tried to convert them to infantry and reneged on a promise of extra pay. This was only the beginning of Tucker's problems.
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clothing. Nonetheless, sickness and death among the prisoners, and even among some guards, reached epidemic levels. Frozen hydrants led to a water shortage. One in eight of the prisoners from Fort Donelson died of pneumonia or various diseases.
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Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler. "Camp Douglas." In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
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Soon after President Lincoln's calls for volunteers, many volunteers from Illinois gathered in various large public and private buildings in Chicago and then overflowed into camps on the prairie on the southeast edge of the city.
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Having lost two of his sons in the war, Tucker left Chicago in 1865, never to return. He became a businessman and Member of New York and Consolidated Stock Exchanges in New York City until he became an invalid by 1887.
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McPherson, 1988, p. 323; In February 1862, Captain John Christopher, U.S. Army recruiting officer, assumed most of the construction costs of Camp Douglas for the federal government. Eisendrath Jr., Joseph L.
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The obituary gives Tucker's age as 74 but Levy gives Tucker's age as 75 at his death. The obituary notice stated that Tucker had been born in New York and had daughters living in Chicago.
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obituary notice for Tucker was published on October 25, 1894, but referred to his death on "Monday." October 25, 1894 was a Thursday, making Tucker's date of death October 22, 1894.
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Levy, 1999, p. 106. Levy characterizes these figures as the best effort at accurately calculating the deaths at Camp Douglas up to this date from the sources, which are available.
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In the fall of 1862, Camp Douglas again briefly became a training camp for Union army volunteers. The Union Army then used the camp for its most unusual purpose.
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Colonel Tucker resigned his commission in the Illinois militia on January 1, 1863, having never officially entered federal service. Levy, 1999, p. 119
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war camp. Tucker was never mustered into the Union Army, remaining a colonel in the Illinois militia during the term of his service in the Civil War.
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On February 26, 1862, General Halleck ordered Colonel Tucker to report to Springfield, Illinois and a Union Army officer from Illinois, Colonel
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were dead and about another sixty were ill with fevers. Soon after Tucker's resignation from the Illinois militia, Brigadier General
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into federal service for ninety days to put down the insurrection. Lincoln made further calls for volunteers on May 3, 1861, and the
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Joseph H. Tucker was born in New York in about 1819, the son of a Baptist minister. Tucker had been a banker and businessman in
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, (Springfield, IL), LIII:1 (Spring 1960), p. 38.
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Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, revised edition 1999, original edition 1994.
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Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, revised edition 1999, original edition 1994.
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Union soldiers who were paroled after their capture by Confederate Lieutenant General
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owned land next to this location and had donated land just south of the camps to the
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History
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recruits, in 1862 and 1863 Camp Douglas was converted into a prison camp for
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Joseph H. Tucker died in New York City on October 22, 1894, aged 74 or 75.
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Mechanicsburg, PA: Pelican Publishing Company Stackpole Books, 1997.
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On April 15, 1861, the day after the U.S. Army garrison surrendered
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To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–1865.
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To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–1865.
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Eisendrath Jr., Joseph L. "Chicago's Camp Douglas, 1861–1865,"
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A History of Camp Douglas, Illinois, Union Prison, 1861–1865
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Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War.
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starting February 21 when Mulligan was unavailable.
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Index

New York
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Graceland Cemetery
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Illinois militia

Colonel
American Civil War

colonel
American Civil War
Camp Douglas
Chicago, Illinois
Union Army
Confederate States Army
Cumberland, Maryland
Fort Sumter
President
Abraham Lincoln
called 75,000 state militiamen
U.S. Congress
Senator
Stephen A. Douglas
original University of Chicago
Richard Yates
Allen C. Fuller
adjutant general for the State of Illinois
Illinois Central Railroad
Brigadier General
Ulysses S. Grant

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