History Channel Documentaries
Eighty Acres of Hell
TV-PG
2009 • E45 45mFrom 1862 to 1865, 26,000 Confederate soldiers passed through Camp Douglas, a rarely mentined prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago.
Inhumane conditions - filth, disease, starvation, torture and bitter cold - resulted in the deaths of 6,000 men at this "Andersonville of the North"
Inhumane conditions - filth, disease, starvation, torture and bitter cold - resulted in the deaths of 6,000 men at this "Andersonville of the North"