Mr Fancy Cancel Civil War Letter From Union Parolee Camp Douglas Chicago Rare For Sale

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Mr Fancy Cancel CIVIL WAR LETTER FROM UNION PAROLEE CAMP DOUGLAS CHICAGO RARE

Very nice Civil War letter from a parole in Camp Douglas Chicago dated Nov 18th 1862. Comes with extensive write up show below - I do not find the signature I belive it is an indistinct word - it is possible that this is from a CSA POW as both were at this location during this time period. Previously priced at $395:

Union Soldier Awaiting Parole — Camp Douglas, Chicago — very rare
2-page (single sheet) letter headed "Nov. 18th 1862 / Chicago,,, Camp / Douglas III" from son to parents, brothers and sisters.

"... I would like to cum hoam and it was thought that we was acuming untill latelyit is almost given up they say that we are exchanged and are a going to Washington for something and we don't know what for and if we are exchanged I want of cum hoam and see you and the rest of the friends I was on guard last night it was pleasant... I have ben askermishing for the lice and found a plenty of them..."

Harrison reports just one cover from a camp Douglas parolee.

When Harper's Ferry was surrendered to the Confederates in 1862 as Gen. Lee moved into Maryland, more than 11,000 Union troops were taken prisoner. Most were sent to Camp Douglas, arriving in September. They were exchanged in November. Conditions at Camp Douglas were not to their liking and discipline was so bad that parolees even burned down
some of their barracks.

From Wikepedia on Camp Douglas
Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, was a Union Army prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. It was also a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Union Army prisoners pending their formal exchange for Confederate prisoners. Camp Douglas became a permanent prisoner-of-war camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865. In the summer and fall of 1865, the camp served as a mustering out point for Union Army volunteer regiments. The camp was dismantled and the movable property was sold off late in the year. In the aftermath of the war, Camp Douglas eventually came to be noted for its poor conditions and death rate of between seventeen and twenty-three percent.

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