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Re: M. Green CSA/POW Camp Douglas, Illinois
In Response To: Morrison Green CSA ()

The North had Camp Douglas, a little known civil war prison in Chicago that set records for prison mortality, hidden in lost and incomplete records and suppressed publicity. To the victor belongs the silence.Look North to Chicago and you will find at least 6000 Confederate soldiers buried in a mass grave on one acre of land. There is only one monument to these prisoners who died, erected in 1895, 30 years after the war, by Southerners and their friends in Chicago and the North.

Hello. The earlier message came straight from the site.
Be prepared. If he lived, he must have been not only strong, but young.
My great grandmother's cousin was at Camp Douglas and he lived to return to Arkansas.
The site is this: www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/2757/html/camp.htm

In the way of family information, a question for you.
Did your set of Green connect someway to a set of Pruitt?
My great great grandmother was born in Georgia.
Her name was Mary Green Pruitt/Prewitt. She was an orphan by the time she married my great great grandfather, J.D. Pearce. He had served with the 8th Arkansas and lived through some terrible battles in the Civil War. They married in Tenn. in 1868 three years after he walked home from North Carolina.
Good luck!!!

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