From the April 18, 2019, Chicago Weekly Citizen by Katherine Newman.
The Camp Douglas Camp #516 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (which is named after the Union prison in Chicago in which some 6,000 Confederates died during the war) will hold a memorial service on April 22 at the Confederate Mound, where at least 4,000 victims are buried, in Oak Woods Cemetery.
They will be met by a group calling themselves Smash White Supremacy.
Matthew Evans, the commander of the SCV group said: We gather to honor the 6,000 men buried at Confederate Mound, who suffered through harsh winters, extreme summer temperature, starvation, human cruelty by the hands of Federal guards, only to die in a prison camp and never return home."
Both groups are planning a peaceful event near each other on April 22.
--Old Secesh
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