Confederate Mound (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
 statue, monument, cemetery, interesting place, military cemetery
Perhaps several thousand mostly unknown Confederate POW\'s re-buried at this site (The Confederate Mound) after dying at Camp Douglas in Chicago during the US Civil War. The Confederate grave site was basically unmarked for about 25 years until the 1890\'s when a group of former Confederates who lived in the Chicago area raised money to build a mounument. They ordered the marble and other construction material from Georgia. The monument is faced with several bronze plaques and panels. The plaques list the names of all known soldiers who are buried here (there are perhaps 2000 more due to poor record keeping at the prison).
www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/confederate_mound.asp
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Woods_Cemetery
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Coordinates:   41°46'1"N   87°36'9"W
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