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Morgan's Raiders were imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois. According to the memorial, six thousand prisoners died at Camp Douglas Capt Daniel Goodman
Here are some images: rebel prisoners, Memorial, image of the camp, and picture of Morgan's Raiders while they were imprisoned.
Being a POW in a CIVIL War is always challenging. Vengeful guards, vengeful fellow inmates, being considered as prisoners and criminals instead of veterans all took their toll.
In general the Federal prison system was consistently better resourced than the Confederate Prisoner of war camps such as the infamous Andersonville.
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Capt Daniel Goodman thanks for the read and share: staggering numbers of deaths!
Aftermath:
By the end of 1864, the Official Records showed that 2,235 prisoners had died at Camp Douglas but Levy states this may be 967 short of the true figure.[225] Another 867 died in 1865, making it the worst short period for mortality of prisoners at the camp.[226] The official death toll at Camp Douglas has been put at 4,454.[227] Others have estimated that from 1862 through 1865, more than 6,000 Confederate prisoners died from disease, starvation, and the bitter cold winters, based in part on an 1880s memorial in Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery that states 6,000 Confederate dead (4,275 known dead) are buried there in a mass grave. (As many as 1,500 more were reported as "unaccounted" for.) On the other hand, historians discovered that unscrupulous contractors buried some crude empty coffins in the relocated graves to increase their profits.[228]

In the aftermath of the war, Camp Douglas eventually came to be described as the North's "Andersonville" for its poor conditions and death rate of between 17 and 23 per cent.[229] The death rate was lower than at Andersonville and its conditions were better.[230] An exact accounting of the number of prisoner deaths at Camp Douglas is now impossible, but despite arguments for a higher number, the best estimates, which place the number of deaths at about 4,454 and the percentage of prisoners who died at the camp at about 17 percent, appear to be reasonably accurate
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