The official death toll for Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas is given by several sources as 4,454..Speer, 2005, p. 304.., stated that the official number of prisoners reburied at Oak Woods was 4,039, which is fewer than the 4,243 names contained on the monument. The number of bodies sent South by Jordan, probably about 143 according to though Jordan claimed about 400, also needs to be included in the number of deaths. The worst period for mortality at the camp was 1865 when 867 prisoners died before the war ended and the remaining prisoners were released, 2,000 in May and 4,000 in June.. Only 16 hospitalized men remained at the camp hospital according to Levy, 30 according to Kelly, after July 5, 1865.
