Camp Douglas Memorial #516

NEWS

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:03:43 -0700

Camp Douglas Memorial #516

illinois division

sons of confederate veterans

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NEWS

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:02:37 -0700

Camp Douglas Memorial #516

illinois division

sons of confederate veterans

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Notice

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:23:15 -0700

The annuall Illinois Division Convention is the last weekend of this month. See the camp web site for more information.

2010Annual Memorial Service

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:27:29 -0700

It is time once again for us to converge and attend upon Confederate Mound at Oakwoods Cemetery in Chicago to honor and pay respects to the 6000 Confederate soldiers who did not go home after the War Between the States. Camp Douglas #516 cordially invites you to come and participate in our memorial ceremony to those who have their names etched on the monument and those who are unknown. The ceremony will begin at 11:00 a.m. April 25th. We invite all members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Organization of the Confederate Rose, United Daughters of the Confederacy, as well as all Confederate Re-enactment units. The camp is in need of troops who will be prepared to render honors to the fallen. This will be a traditional ceremony that will include the Soil of the Confederacy to be spread upon the mound. Please contact James Barr or John Jeffers if you plan to participate so we may acknowledge you and your group.

Lee-Jackson Dinner 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:25:28 -0700

Please join Camp Douglas Memorial in our annual celebration of the birthdays of General Lee and General Jackson. Music and dancing will be provided. Dinner will be served. $25.00 /person. RSVP not required but appreciated. Time: 5:30 p.m. Date: 24 April 2010 Chicago Ball Room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2875 N. Milwaukee Ave. Northbrook, IL. 60062 Contact person: Jim Barr 1-773-755-2748 or jim@tax-acct.net Guest Speaker Lt Col. Knudsen, noted author and historian on Gen Longstreet

Camp Calendar

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:22:00 -0800

Gentlemen- I have updated the Division Calendar with all of next years Camp 516 meeting dates.

Newspaper Account of Camp Douglas

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:58:31 -0800

Richmond Examiner account of prisoner conditions at Camp Douglas. Date unknown Our Prisoners at Camp Douglas Among the prisoners brought up by the flag of truce boat, on last Monday, were some from the West who have been confined at Camp Douglas, at Chicago. The very signs of the poor fellows is enough to strike pity to the heart. We wish the government could hear their tales of suffering and distress, and hope that they will take some steps to lay their grievances before the authorities here. Camp Douglas is worse than the Hole of Calcutta. Not satisfied with putting our men to death by suffering and torture, the Yankee demons have taken to poisoning them! The little things, such as pies and cakes, that our poor prisoners would buy out of their few remaining cents, had killed a number of our men, and on an investigation being ordered and the food analyzed, poison was plainly detected, and its presence admitted by the Yankee surgeons. The authorities tried to exculpate themselves by laying it to an old Irish woman who was permitted to sell cakes among the prisoners. The death of our men at camp Douglas has been appalling. One of our prisoners estimates that in the short space of three months there were over seven hundred and fifty deaths. This was caused by a combination of causes--the low wet marshy situation of the camp, being half in water; the filth and vermin of the place, and the long and desolate confinement of our men. In fact, some of the prisoners who came up by the last truce flag had languished there for nearly two years, and their dejected sorrow, stricken and emaciated faces bore testimony of more than all they told of their suffering. The suffering to which our brave men have been subjected by the demons is enough to melt the heart to tears. Even in the cold winter-in mid winter- they were thrown into prison, with nothing more than a pallet of wet straw as a bed, and without a particle of clothing to protect them from the cold and piercing blast-and one who knows anything of Western life, knows how fearfully they sweep over the prairies. In all the cold our men lay exposed to the storm, cold and shivering and benumbed. A cold snow storm came, and the result was that twenty-five or thirty of our men actually froze to death. We have this on reliable authority and the story is substantially confirmed in every particular by an account which we published some time since from the Chicago Times. On their way from the West, our prisoners were still objects of persecution and malignity of the Yankees, and were made to travel two live-long days without a morsel of food! They left Camp Douglas about two thousand prisoners, who were to be exchanged and were leaving in bodies of four and five hundred. It was hoped by our men that they would soon be out of the clutches of the demons who have lorded it over them with a tyranny and cruelty, worse than that of the dark ages.--Richmond Examiner

New and Updated Project information

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:17:10 -0800

Good Morning to all you. I would like to announce that Camp Douglas 516 is embarking on a new and easier fund raising project for the camp that will not cost you anything extra. The camp has joined onecause.com. There are at least 2 ways for the camp to make money. The first is to download the onecause.com toolbar. By logging onto the your onecause account and using their toolbar, the toolbar is powered by yahoo.com, for every search done, the camp will earn .02 for each search. Secondly, when ever you buy anything online, login into onecause.com, and do your shopping/buying through them, the camp will a pre-determined percentage from each purchase. They have many merchants to choose from, each with a different percentage. You are going to buy the items anyway, why not have the merchants contribute to the camp? If you join as a "Contributing Supporter", then you can use onecause, to pay for your annual camp dues, through the purchases you make. Lastly, this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is the last Shop and Share period for this year for the camp. I emailed all of you a copy of the voucher, to be downloaded and printed by you. for your use. The voucher can be copied and given to anyone you want, as long as they do their shopping on those days listed on the voucher at any, Jewel Food Store. Normally, we have about 3-4 people who do use the voucher, and the camp takes in anywhere from $9.00- $14.00. Imagine what we could do if just 30 of our members use the voucher? We have over 70 members, the camp can use the money to offset the cost the Lee-Jackson dinner, the Scholarship program, anything we would like to do! To join onecause go to this link http://www.onecause/causes/camp-douglas-memorial-516-scv Gentlemen- this is the easiest way this or any other camp will have to solving the eternal funding question that faces any camp in the confederation. How well it works, depends upon you, the members of this camp.

NEWS

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:44:49 -0800

Camp Douglas Memorial #516

illinois division

sons of confederate veterans

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Camp Douglas #516 has a new program

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:20:09 -0800

As of this morning, Camp #516 has been approved to join OneCause.com. This is a fund raising site for non-profit organizations. We applied last Friday and were notified Saturday morning. When you go to the camp website you will see the join button, just click on it and follow the directions. Depending on the store site you have chosen to do your online shopping will vary with how much the merchants will contribute to the organization. I urge all our members to join, and Kenn Lightfoot from the Florida Division, and our associate member has been the first to join "Our Cause". Thanks -Kenn- you have set the lead for the rest of our members to follow!!!-jj

Notice

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:50 -0700

There will be a camp meeting on 9/12/09 at Silver Stallion restaurant in Des Plaines at 9 am, and we will have a event next weekend 9/19-20/09 at Lake Villa Illinois. As always the amp needs members to come out and give a hand. Do not be like one of our recently departed camp members, who told me that membership was a waste of his time and money, and that he got nothing out of it. My response to him was thus, 1) You never came out for anything for the camp, no meetings, no events, so it did not waste your time, since you did not put any into it, 2) as for your money, well you get out of it, what you put into it., 3) as for getting nothing out of it, nothing put in, nothing out. With that in mind what did your ancestor do when the pay didn't arrive, the food didn't arrive or there was little or none to be had, when clothing was in short supply and the winter was cold., no shoes to be had. What did your ancestor do? Some did quit, others did not. What kind of member will you be? Me I really like the active member. Is going to all the meetings and events grand spectacles?, will the mysteries of the CSA Armies be revealed to you upon attending a meeting or camp event? NO, none of those things happen. WHY?, Because you are not there! What you will get is a level of comfort and understanding with a group of men who you are NOT related to (kin for those of you who are of True Southern descent) who share a common thread that was woven over 150 years ago in a titanic struggle for a nation's independence. Today, many men cannot even lay claim to this privilidge of Confederate Heritage. Here in Illinois, this is indeed a rarity. But here we are none the less, we know without a doubt why our ancestors fought, why they sacrificed, and because of them, we now share that uncommon bond for Illinoisans. We come to the events to announce to Illinois, that Confederate Heritage is real and not some school text book anamoly they read about years ago. We are the flesh and blood of our ancestors very existence, we can not be denied, our ancestors deeds cannot be denied, and their valor looked down upon. We are here to correct the false ideas and notions that have been instituted to belittle our ancestors as "rebels". Yes they are rebels, but REBELS, with a capital R. Rebels who took a stand, fought, bled, died and yes survived the horror of defeat. We are here now- what kind of member will you be?

Silly Website Improvement

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:42:01 -0700

The Camp Douglas website now has its own photo icon- it is 16x16 pixels large- anyting larger and the IE would not "see" it but if you are wondering it is a pic of Confederate Mound. If you save the website to your favorites bar on your tool bar, it will save the icon pic.

"New" camp number for Camp Douglas

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:30:40 -0700

Camp Douglas now has a "new" camp number. Before there was a Camp Douglas SCV in Chicago there was a an SCV camp in Chicago. It went by a few different names, but the camp number was always 516. After this oversight was discovered by IHQ, we have asked that Camp Douglas be allowed to reassume using the original camp number assigned to Chicago and to retire 1507 until such time that a second Chicago camp is activated. Our request was granted. As of this date, Camp Douglas will now be using the original number assigned to our geographic location, 516. 1507 is now retired and will continue to be associated with Chicago. I will start to change over the websites and any other pertinent electronic media to reflect our "new" number.

Rockford camp IS now official!!!

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:05:55 -0700

Great news men, This breaking news was received from Illinois Division Commander Jim Barr: Our camp now has it's own number! The new camp number is #2229. Hurrah for Rock Island Memorial P.O.W. Camp #2229! Jacob M. Lake Camp commander Rock Island Memorial P.O.W. Camp Illinois Division, S.C.V. Army of Tennessee Congratulations Commander Lake and to camp 2229

NEWS

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:20:09 -0700

Camp Douglas Memorial #1507

illinois division

sons of confederate veterans

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My latest updates

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April 18, 2009 Illinois Division Convention.

Springfield, Illinois

Hilton Hotel

Contact Ed Briggs, Division Adjutant