The Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Sullivant Avenue, Camp Chase, Columbus, OH

Memorializes the cemetery's 2,260 Confederate dead The memorial, A Confederate Private Soldier stands atop a granite arch which spans a boulder bearing the inscription, "2,260 Confederate Soldiers of the War 1861-1865 Buried in this Enclosure" May, 1861, Camp Chase opens as a Union military training ground under the name Camp Jackson July, 1861, Camp Chase admits its first Confederate prisoners. July 5, 1865 final prisoners released 1895, Camp Chase holds first memorial services under guidance of William Knauss 1902, Memorial erected MORE on the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetary Audience Healing Selected Bibliography Home to The Public Monument in North America