Chicago and The Civil War

The Civil War & Chicago

• “OUR WISH FOR A HARD BATTLE: A Chicago Artilleryman’s Account of the BATTLE OF SHILOH” by Theodore J. Karamanski
• Bygone days in Chicago; recollections of the “Garden city” of the Sixties (1910) by Frederick Francis Cook
• Camp Douglas Prison
• Camp Douglas, Illinois
• Illinois During the Civil War
• Illinois in the Civil War
• Manley Stacey Civil War Letters
• Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois (1901); Internet Archive
• Oak Woods Cemetery
• Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas (CHM)
• Reminiscences of Chicago during the civil war (1914)
• The Bohemian Brigade
• The Cairo Expedition : Illinois first response in the late Civil War by Augustus Harris Burley (1892)
• The Chicago Platform
• The Civil War (Encyclopedia of Chicago)
• The Civil War from the pages of Harper’s Weekly (Amazing website!)
• The Civil War Roundtable of Chicago
• The History Lab (CHM)