Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery

(Location: Columbus, Ohio, Sullivant Ave.)

( This Cemetery Is Government Property and there is no trespassing. Our investigation of this sight was done outside the gates. If you visit this site please be respectful of trespassing laws stay outside of the gates.)

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Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, located at 2900 Sullivant Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, encloses within its less than two acres the mortal remains of 2,087 Confederate soldiers. These men died while prisoners of war. Nearly all of them were held captives at Camp Chase Military Prison, a portion of whose grounds became Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Added to their number are 31 Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio. Their remains were removed to Camp Chase Cemetery shortly after the close of the War Between the States.

Early inmates at the Camp Chase prison camp were chiefly political and military prisoners, from Kentucky and western Virginia. However, Union victories at Fort Donalson, Tennessee on February 16, 1862 and at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on April 8, 1862 brought a new influx of prisoners. All of the officers taken at these battles, except general and field officers who were sent to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, were transferred to the Camp Chase prison. When the Confederate Stockade on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie was established most of the officers at Camp Chase were sent there. Following this transfer, men from the ranks, the privates, corporals and sergeants, made up the bulk of the Confederate soldiers confined at Camp Chase. The high tide of the prison population at Camp Chase was reached in 1863 when some 8,000 men were confined there.

During the winter of 1863-1864 a smallpox epidemic caused many deaths. In November 1864 there was an exchange of 10,000 sick and wounded prisoners between the North and South.

Prior to the establishment of a cemetery at Camp Chase prison, the Confederate soldiers who died there were interred in the City Cemetery of Columbus, Ohio. After the cemetery was established at Camp Chase late in 1863 their remains were re-interred in the prison cemetery.

Historical Pictures

Investigation Photo's

 This location we took lots of pics. The reports we where investigating where of the "Grey Lady". We did not catch any picture evidence at this location but two of our members reported seeing a man in old military uniform around the site. The lighting around the outside of this location is street lights all around and it is so close to the road that headlights from cars throw weird shadows. It is possible that the man in the uniform was caused by car lights reflecting off of the civil war soldier statue in the center of the cemetery. This is government property and there is no trespassing with in the grounds we stayed outside of the gate to be sure not to violate trespassing laws and suggest you do the same if you decide to visit this site. We will make a return visit with full gear and again we will stay outside of the gates. Keep checking back for our second visit to this location!!!!!