CHICAGO (CBS) -- Camp Douglas – once located ... only a couple of months after the Civil War commenced with the Battle of Fort Sumter. Douglas is perhaps best known infamously for sponsoring ...

October 26, 1940 – December 28, 2021 George Erven Douglas, age 81, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Chicago, Illinois passed away peacefully at 3:56pm on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 in FL.

Douglas made his last public address in Chicago on May 1 ... The effort ended in April 1861 when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter; Douglas recognized that the time for compromise had passed.