WebSubject: Letter # 8. "Camp Chase,Near Columbus,Ohio April 18, 1862. Dear Captain: Our second campaign has been a very unfortunate one, and the First Alabama is now in durance-prisoners of war. Our accommodations and fare are far better than any of us expected. The privates have been sent to Springfield or Chicago. WebCamp Chase was a major Union prisoner-of-war internment center at Columbus, Ohio, holding, in late September, 1864, upward of 5000 prisoners. There are only two surviving registers of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, both now housed in the Archives-Library Division of The Ohio Historical Society. One is an indexed volume of some 150 …
Confederate Prisoners of War ~ 1861 ~ 1865 - AHGP
Camp Chase was an American Civil War training and prison camp established in May 1861, on land leased by the U.S. Government. It replaced the much smaller Camp Jackson which was established by Ohio Governor William Dennison Jr as a place for Ohio's union volunteers to meet. It originally operated from a city park. The main entrance was on the National Road 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Downtown Columbus, Ohio. Boundaries of the camp were present-day Broad Stree… WebApproximately 2,260 Confederate prisoners are interred in the cemetery, including thirty-one from Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati. Initially, Northern officials interred deceased Camp Chase prisoners in a public cemetery in Columbus, but in 1863, authorities established a cemetery at the prison. earby circus
Civil War Prisoners at Camp Chase, 1861-1862 - oocities.org
WebCamp Chase, Columbus, Ohio POWs by surname A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois Confederate Burials in Mound City National Cemetery Camp Randall, near Madison Wisconsin Confederate prisoners from Camp Randall buried in Madison, Wisconsin Elmira Prison, New York POWs by surname A - E … http://www.old-new-orleans.com/Camp_Chase.html WebCamp Chase served as a training post for Ohio soldiers, a parole camp, a muster-out post and a prisoner-of-war camp. Between 1861 and 1865 when the camp was closed, more than 150,000 Union soldiers and over 9,400 Confederate prisoners passed through the camp, including four future US Presidents; Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, … earby autos earby