March 1863 Camp Douglas Illinois
Daniel Boone McCracken was the brother of Anna Louisa McCracken. He served in the Texas 25th Cavalry with Joel Gordon Carey, husband to Anna Louisa. The Texas 25th Calvary was dismounted and fought with the infantry at Arkansas Post where a major battle took place. The Confederate forces were out manned and out gunned, with five thousand Confederate troops against 32,000 Union troops. The South had little artillery, while the Union forces had many heavy artillery pieces, on land and in the river aboard boats. The South had no boats at Arkansas Post, and they were outnumbered seven to one. 4900 Confederate troops were captured on January 22, 1863. Daniel and Joel were among them. Ansel McCracken and David McCracken had also been captured on that day. It is unknown if any of the three were wounded, but Daniel had been sick recently and furloughed home to recuperate from September 1862 through November 1862. Without antibiotics, any sickness could become a major illness. It took months to get over pneumonia, influenza and other common ailments. The living and sanitary conditions in Civil War Prisoner of War Camps was horrible in the North and in the South. Men could be healthy when captured and die of dysentery, malnutrition or one of many diseases such as pneumonia and smallpox, which were rampant in these camps. Joel, Ansel and Daniel died while in Camp Douglas, just outside Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, plot Confederate, 295.
Daniel Boone McCracken was the brother of Anna Louisa McCracken. He served in the Texas 25th Cavalry with Joel Gordon Carey, husband to Anna Louisa. The Texas 25th Calvary was dismounted and fought with the infantry at Arkansas Post where a major battle took place. The Confederate forces were out manned and out gunned, with five thousand Confederate troops against 32,000 Union troops. The South had little artillery, while the Union forces had many heavy artillery pieces, on land and in the river aboard boats. The South had no boats at Arkansas Post, and they were outnumbered seven to one. 4900 Confederate troops were captured on January 22, 1863. Daniel and Joel were among them. Ansel McCracken and David McCracken had also been captured on that day. It is unknown if any of the three were wounded, but Daniel had been sick recently and furloughed home to recuperate from September 1862 through November 1862. Without antibiotics, any sickness could become a major illness. It took months to get over pneumonia, influenza and other common ailments. The living and sanitary conditions in Civil War Prisoner of War Camps was horrible in the North and in the South. Men could be healthy when captured and die of dysentery, malnutrition or one of many diseases such as pneumonia and smallpox, which were rampant in these camps. Joel, Ansel and Daniel died while in Camp Douglas, just outside Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, plot Confederate, 295.
March 1863 Camp Douglas Illinois
Daniel Boone McCracken was the brother of Anna Louisa McCracken. He served in the Texas 25th Cavalry with Joel Gordon Carey, husband to Anna Louisa. The Texas 25th Calvary was dismounted and fought with the infantry at Arkansas Post where a major battle took place. The Confederate forces were out manned and out gunned, with five thousand Confederate troops against 32,000 Union troops. The South had little artillery, while the Union forces had many heavy artillery pieces, on land and in the river aboard boats. The South had no boats at Arkansas Post, and they were outnumbered seven to one. 4900 Confederate troops were captured on January 22, 1863. Daniel and Joel were among them. Ansel McCracken and David McCracken had also been captured on that day. It is unknown if any of the three were wounded, but Daniel had been sick recently and furloughed home to recuperate from September 1862 through November 1862. Without antibiotics, any sickness could become a major illness. It took months to get over pneumonia, influenza and other common ailments. The living and sanitary conditions in Civil War Prisoner of War Camps was horrible in the North and in the South. Men could be healthy when captured and die of dysentery, malnutrition or one of many diseases such as pneumonia and smallpox, which were rampant in these camps. Joel, Ansel and Daniel died while in Camp Douglas, just outside Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, plot Confederate, 295.
Daniel Boone McCracken was the brother of Anna Louisa McCracken. He served in the Texas 25th Cavalry with Joel Gordon Carey, husband to Anna Louisa. The Texas 25th Calvary was dismounted and fought with the infantry at Arkansas Post where a major battle took place. The Confederate forces were out manned and out gunned, with five thousand Confederate troops against 32,000 Union troops. The South had little artillery, while the Union forces had many heavy artillery pieces, on land and in the river aboard boats. The South had no boats at Arkansas Post, and they were outnumbered seven to one. 4900 Confederate troops were captured on January 22, 1863. Daniel and Joel were among them. Ansel McCracken and David McCracken had also been captured on that day. It is unknown if any of the three were wounded, but Daniel had been sick recently and furloughed home to recuperate from September 1862 through November 1862. Without antibiotics, any sickness could become a major illness. It took months to get over pneumonia, influenza and other common ailments. The living and sanitary conditions in Civil War Prisoner of War Camps was horrible in the North and in the South. Men could be healthy when captured and die of dysentery, malnutrition or one of many diseases such as pneumonia and smallpox, which were rampant in these camps. Joel, Ansel and Daniel died while in Camp Douglas, just outside Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, plot Confederate, 295.
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