Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery - Columbus, Ohio
N 39° 56.617 W 083° 04.563
17S E 322636 N 4423563
Camp Chase, was used for training Union soldiers. Later, it served as a prison for captured Confederates. Camp Chase is one of the largest Confederate cemeteries in the north, with over 2,000 prisoners buried there.
Waymark Code: WMMR29
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 10/28/2014
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Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery is located in Franklin County, Ohio, six miles west of downtown Columbus. The federal government purchased the site in 1879.
Camp Chase shifted from a training camp for Union Army recruits to a prisoner-of-war camp early in the war. The facility was named after Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln, and former governor of Ohio. The first inmates at Camp Chase were chiefly political and military prisoners from Kentucky and Western Virginia allegedly loyal to the Confederacy. Union victories at Fort Donaldson, Tennessee, on Feb. 16, 1862, and at Mississippi River Island No. 10, on April 8, 1862, brought an influx of prisoners. All of the officers taken at these battles were moved to Camp Chase, save for generals and field officers, who were sent to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. From: (
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