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PVT William Perry Mills

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PVT William Perry Mills

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
19 Mar 1863 (aged 34–35)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Confederate soldier who died while being held as a Prisoner of War by the Union. His service was in Company B of the 15th Regiment of the Texas Cavalry.

Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. During the Civil War, more Confederate soldiers died at Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any battlefield. "Neither side was prepared to handle POWs and neither figured out how to successfully remedy the situation once it presented itself," Jennifer Caci and Joanne M. Cline wrote in an article on prisoner of war camps published in 2009 in the U.S. Army Medical Department Journal. "Repeating the same mistakes as others, from the atrocious depravities to establishing inadequate facilities, Americans had failed miserably at their first test as guardians of POWs."∼Illinois Soldier Burial Places
Name Perry Miles (Mills)
Event Type Burial
Event Place , Cook, Illinois, United States
Gender Male
Military Regiment 15 Texas
Death Date 19 Mar 1863
Cemetery Oak Woods

Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors who died in Camp Douglas & Buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills, 1892, Page 46
Confederate soldier who died while being held as a Prisoner of War by the Union. His service was in Company B of the 15th Regiment of the Texas Cavalry.

Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. During the Civil War, more Confederate soldiers died at Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any battlefield. "Neither side was prepared to handle POWs and neither figured out how to successfully remedy the situation once it presented itself," Jennifer Caci and Joanne M. Cline wrote in an article on prisoner of war camps published in 2009 in the U.S. Army Medical Department Journal. "Repeating the same mistakes as others, from the atrocious depravities to establishing inadequate facilities, Americans had failed miserably at their first test as guardians of POWs."∼Illinois Soldier Burial Places
Name Perry Miles (Mills)
Event Type Burial
Event Place , Cook, Illinois, United States
Gender Male
Military Regiment 15 Texas
Death Date 19 Mar 1863
Cemetery Oak Woods

Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors who died in Camp Douglas & Buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills, 1892, Page 46

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B 15 TEX. CAV.

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