From Chicago: Its History and Its Builders.
Camp Fry was established later in the war on the north side of Chicago in an area known as "Wright's Grove" at the corner of N. Clark and Diversey. It was noted for its stand of original white oak.
It was only used for the assembling and mustering in of recruits who then marched south on Clark Street to Wells and then to Lake Street (which was paved) and from then to the Illinois Central Railroad depot. People remember it as being quite a parade as units moved through the city.
Throughout the war, there was much moving a troops came and went through Chicago.
Camp Fry never attained the status of the bigger Camp Douglas on Chicago's South Side.
--Old Secesh
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