"Confederates to Attack Camp Douglas, Free the Prisoners?" Topic

"The city is filling up with suspicious characters," wrote Col. B.J. Sweet, "some of whom we know to be escaped prisoners, and other who were here from Canada during the Chicago convention, plotting to release the prisoners of war at Camp Douglas."

Benjamin Sweet had overseen the ins and outs of Camp Douglas since early May, and since his reign began, conditions in the prison had deteriorated, as he cut rations, enacted harsher punishments, and general ruled from his Chicago office as a loathsome tyrant.

And it was from his Chicago office where he began to become paranoid of a possible prison break. This wouldn't have been the first attempt by the Rebels to free their comrades, so his suspicions were understandable. However, in a letter written upon this date, he posits that he had "every reason to believe that Colonel [Vincent] Marmaduke, of the rebel army, is in the city under an assumed name…." He went on to name several other officers he believed where following Marmaduke's supposed footsteps…"
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