Camp Douglas
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Camp Douglas can refer to a location in the United States:
Camp Douglas can refer to a location in Spitsbergen
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- Camp Douglas, WisconsinCamp Douglas, WisconsinCamp Douglas is a village in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 592 at the 2000 census. Camp Douglas is home to Volk Field Air National Guard Base.-History:...
, a small city - Camp Douglas (Chicago)Camp Douglas (Chicago)Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, 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...
, a Union prison camp during the American Civil War - Camp Douglas (Fort Douglas, UtahFort Douglas, UtahCamp Douglas was established in October 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In 1878, the post was renamed Fort Douglas. The fort was officially...
), a U.S. Army post along the Oregon Trail in Utah
Camp Douglas can refer to a location in Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...
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- Camp Douglas, Spitsbergen, a former mining encampment