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Site of Camp Douglas Civil War Training and Induction Center

During the Civil War, a Union Army Training Post was built at 31st Street between Cottage Grove and South Parkway. It served as a Confederate prisonerof war camp from 1862-1865 housing approximately 26,000 Confederate soldiers in temporary wooden barracks. Because of the harsh conditions, approximately foru thousand men died and were buried in unmarked pauper's graves in the Chicago City Cemetery, located in what is now the southeast corner of Lincoln Park.