Camp Douglas

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Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Modern Address	3232 S Martin Luther King Drive
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Description	This was a Civil War training and POW camp located between Cottage Grove Avenue and present-day Martin Luther King Drive, between present-day East 31st Street and East 33rd Place (then College Place). It was established in 1861. The "Comet" and "Eastman" clubs, among others, played there postwar. Confederate POWs played while the war was still going on.
Sources	Wikipedia article. Keller book.
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice

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Games

Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1865-09-06	Chicago		IL	Excelsior Club of Chicago	Club of Bloomington	35 - 9		Bob Tholkes

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