2988 x 4500 px | 25,3 x 38,1 cm | 10 x 15 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 novembre 2011
Lieu:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
The Confederate Monument on Confederate Mound at Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery. One section of Oak Woods is known as the "Confederate Mound.". A 46-foot monument stands alone, surrounded by cannon and cannonballs. Buried around it are an estimated 6, 000 soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy. Those buried came from Camp Douglas, a Northern prisoner of war internment camp near the estate of Stephen Douglas and named for the senator and presidential candidate of the Civil War era. Like the Confederacy's Andersonville prison, camp conditions were appalling and rampant with disease. By the end of the war, thousands of Camp Douglas inmates had died and eventually were buried in the mass grave at Oak Woods. The 46-foot monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1895 in a ceremony attended by President Cleveland and 100, 000 people including large numbers from both armies. The memorial is the largest monument to the Confederacy in the North.
