An estimated fifteen hundred to twenty-two hundred…

April 1864 CE

An estimated fifteen hundred to twenty-two hundred Confederate prisoners of war incarcerated at Alton have died during the smallpox epidemic of 1863-1864.

A Confederate mass grave on the north side of Alton holds many of the dead from the epidemic and a memorial marks the site.

Often, when Confederate prisoners escape, they try to cross the Mississippi River back to the slave state of Missouri.

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Alton Madison Illinois United States View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Illinois, State of (U.S.A.) View → Missouri, State of (U.S.A.) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Western Theater of the American Civil War View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View →

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