A commemorative sign stands at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
An alternate view of the commemorative sign and statue at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
Photo by: Carissa Andrea Thrush/Flickr | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Named after Salmon P. Chase, former Ohio governor and U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, is home to 2,122 Confederate gravesites. Opened in June of 1861, Camp Chase originally served as a training facility for Ohio’s U.S. Army recruits. As the Union secured more victories and thus prisoners of war, Camp Chase shifted to become a prison, and in 1963 a cemetery was established. Fourteen years after the prison’s closing, the U.S. government bought the land, and in 1904 funds were allocated to maintain the property. Within the cemetery there are two monuments—a bronze Confederate soldier standing on top of a stone arch, and a three-foot-tall boulder under the arch with the estimated number of soldiers buried at the time of inscription in 1897.
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