Co. H, 126th Regiment NY Vol.


Died at Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois.

Camp Douglas was a Union Army prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. It was also a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner of war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Union Army prisoners pending their formal exchange for Confederate prisoners. Camp Douglas became a permanent prisoner of war camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865. In the summer and fall of 1865, the camp served as a mustering out point for Union Army volunteer regiments. The camp was dismantled and the movable property was sold off late in the year. In the aftermath of the war, Camp Douglas eventually came to be noted for its poor conditions and death rate of between seventeen and twenty-three percent.

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New York, Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts,
1861-1900 about John J Jackson
Name: John J Jackson
Age: 21
Birth Year: abt 1841
Birth Place: England
Enlistment Year: 1862
Enlistment Location: Manchester, New York
Muster Year: 1862
Separation Details: Died
Separation Date: 26 Oct 1862


U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about John J. Jackson
Name: John J. Jackson
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment Name: 126 N. Y. Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 126th Regiment, New York Infantry
Company: H
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M551 roll 70


U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles,
1861-1865 about John J Jackson
Name: John J Jackson
Residence: Manchester, New York
Age at enlistment: 21
Enlistment Date: 9 Aug 1862
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Manchester, New York
State Served: New York
Was POW?: Yes
Survived the War?: No
Service Record: Enlisted in Company H, New York 126th Infantry Regiment on 22 Aug 1862.Mustered out on 26 Oct 1862 at Chicago, IL.
Birth Date: abt 1841
Sources: New York: Report of the Adjutant-General