[Instructions for guard duty]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09360 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 12 July 1862 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy
Instructions for all enlisted and commissioned officers doing guard duty, issued by Major Wm. H. Haskell, 67th Regt. Ill, Guard Instructor, and Col. Joseph H. Tucker, Post Commander. Camp Douglas was a training camp near Chicago, but was used through most of the war as a POW camp beginning in early 1862 with Grant's capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
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