At the end of June, we visited the Camp Butler National Cemetery just outside of Springfield, Illinois. When we first pulled into the drive, the cemetery has a different air about it and instantly makes you think of Arlington National Cemetery. Located on the cemetery grounds, over 25,000 veterans and their spouses are buried from every engagement starting with the Union and Confederate graves from the Civil War.
In February 1862, approximately 2000 Confederate soldiers were captured and transferred to Camp Butler where the prisoners were given little food and primitive sanitation facilities. Due to the lack of medical supplies, the POWs began to die from elemental exposure, smallpox, typhus, and pneumonia. By the summer of 1862, nearly 700 POWs died of smallpox alone and those soldiers are still buried in the Confederate mass burial section of the cemetery with another 166 of their comrades.
In 1865, a fire ravaged the Camp Butler hospital destroying many of the medical records from the camp. Along with the destruction of the hospital, we were informed by the cemetery staff that dozens of soldiers also lost their lives.
Check These Out Too! ▼
Expedition Entity: Pursuing The Paranormal! ► http://bit.ly/1U022id
Lifting The Veil: Haunted Or Not! ► http://bit.ly/1Ec71p2
Ghosthunter Dan's VLogs! ► http://bit.ly/1hB2u5v
Cemetery Videos! ► http://bit.ly/1KcSJ8u
Check out our friends videos! ► http://bit.ly/1JsuyC5
This Channel Uses Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free Music! ► http://incompetech.com/
Subscribe Today! ► https://www.youtube.com/user/Ghosthun...
Follow me on Twitter ► https://twitter.com/GhosthunterDanN
0 Comments