During the Civil War, between 6,000 and 7,000 Confederates died at Chicago's Camp Douglas (there is a Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp based in the Chicagoland area that has the name of the prison to honor those men). Most of the soldiers who died during the war were as a result of diseases like typhoid and dysentery.
The bell at Camp Douglas was rung when news of the surrender reached Chicago. Also rung were most of the church bells in the city.
People at the ceremony also stood in front of the table on which Confederate General Lee signed the surrender at the McLean house in Appomattox Court house, Virginia. That was a real connection to the event.
--Old Secesh
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