Bibliography

There are many excellent books and articles available on the Civil War and the African American contribution to the Civil War. Below are a few with emphasis on Camp Douglas and the Civil War prison camps as well as the contribution of African Americans to the Civil War.

Bernstein, Arnie. The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago’s Civil War Connections. Lake Claremont Press, 2003.

Campbell, Thomas. Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln. Ampersand, Inc., 2009.

Camp Douglas News. Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation. https://campdouglas.org/newsletter/, 2010 – 2021.

Clausewitz, Carl Von. On War, Vom Kreig, 1832, Antatol Rapopport, ed. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968.

Cook, Francis Frederick. Bygone Days in Chicago; Recollections of the “Garden City” of the Sixties. A. C. McClurg & Co, 1910.

Donald, Herbert. Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Doyle, Robert C. The Enemy in Our Hands. The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Doyle, Robert C. Voices from Captivity. University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Foner, Eric, The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. W. W. Norton & Co., 2010.

Gillispie, James M. Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners. University of North Texas Press, 2008.

Gregory, Michael M., Peterson, Jane, Hincha, Noel, 2021. “History Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology in Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood Illinois Antiquity” 56(2)1-8.

Hansen, Joyce. Between Two Fires: Black Soldiers in the Civil War. Franklin Watts, 1993.

Haynie, I. N. ”A history of Camp Douglas, A Prisoner of War Camp at Chicago 1861-1865.”Report by the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, Volume 1. Eagle Press, 1991.

Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally ‘Round the Flag:  Chicago and the Civil War. Nelson-Hall, Inc., 1993.

Karamanski, Theodore J. and McMahon, Eileen M., editors. Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History. Ohio University Press, 2014.

Keller, David L. The Story of Camp Douglas, Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison. History Press, 2015.

Keller, David L. “Analysis of  Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War.” Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2017.

Keller, David L. “Analysis of  Five Factors Impacting Union Soldiers in Confederate Prison Camps During the Civil War and Analysis of  Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War.” Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2018.

Keller, David L. “Comparison of Analysis of  Five Factors Impacting Confederates in Union Prison Camps During the Civil War.” Andersonville National POW Research Program, 2017.

Keller, David L. Military Prisons of the Civil War, a Comparative Study. Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2021.

Keller, David L. Transcription and annotation, Bagby, Robert Anderson “Civil War Diary 1863-1865.” Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation, 2013.

Levy, George, To Die in Chicago, Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65. Pelican Publishing Company, 1999.

Livermore, Mary, My Story of the War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army and in Relief Work at Home. Hartford, CT, A. D. Worthington, 1888.

Malone, Margaret Gay, editor. The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse. Benchmark Books 2004.

Miller, Edward A., Jr. The Black Soldier of Illinois-Story of the Twenty Ninth US Colored Troops. University of South Carolina Press,1998.

McPherson, James M. University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in Grey, The Civil War Prisons of the Union. University of Alabama Press, 2009.

Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861. Harper Perennial, 1967.

Pucci, Kelly. Images of America, Camp Douglas, Chicago’s Civil War Prison. Arcadia Press,  2007.

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. Little, Brown and Company, 1953.

Redkey, Edwin S., Editor. A Grand Army of Black Men. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Starr, Stephen Z. Colonel Grenfell’s Wars. Louisiana State University Press, 1971.

Spear, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell, Military Prisons of the Civil War. University of Nebraska Press. 1997.

Travis, Dempsey J. An Autobiography of Black Chicago. Urban Research Press, Inc., 1981.

Turner, Bernard C. A New View of Bronzeville. Highlights of Chicago Press, 2021.

Walker, Sally M. Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey. Candlewick Press, 2017.