County: Sangamon
Location: The marker is located on the
right side of the entrance to the Camp Butler National
Cemetery, northeast of Springfield. It is on Camp
Butler Road two miles east of I-55 (Sangamon Avenue Exit
100).
N 39o 49.910 W 089o 33.409
Erected: 01/01/1934 Erected by: State of Illinois
Camp Butler, Civil War concentration camp for Illinois volunteers, occupied a large area in this vicinity from 1861 to 1866. It was also a prison camp for captured Confederates. Now a national Cemetery, it contains the graves of 1642 Union and Confederate soldiers.
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