Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)

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A Confederate cemetery for the Camp Chase prison camp, which encompassed the surrounding area during the Civil War. The ghostly Lady in Gray is said to place fresh flowers on the grave of Benjamin Allen of the 50th Tennessee Volunteers.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chase
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Coordinates:   39°56'37"N   83°4'33"W

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  • In addition to names and military unit identification, all the gravestones are numbered, starting with 1 and going to over 3,000. An interesting numbering scheme was used on some of the low-numbered graves in the southwest corner: they have half-numbers. That is, there is a marker numbered 10, next to a marker numbered 10-1/2, next to a marker numbered 11. The majority of the soldiers buried here succumbed to diseases contracted in the confines of the Camp Chase military prison camp, to which the cemetery was originally attached.
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