Camp Douglas: The History of the Notorious Union Prison Camp that Became Known as the North’s Andersonville by Charles River Editors
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Overview: 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.” – Henry Whitney Bellows, president of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, in a report to Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman, Office of the Commissary-General of Prisoners, about Camp Douglas
It is impossible to conduct a war without atrocities occurring, primarily because war itself is an atrocity, but when those who win the war write the histories, as they almost always do, they typically ignore or seek to explain away their own malevolent acts while exaggerating those of their defeated enemy. This goes a long way in explaining why the name Andersonville immediately conjures up visions of horrific suffering for many Americans, while the name Camp Douglas means almost nothing to those who aren’t intimately familiar with the Civil War.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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