CAMP CHASE. About four miles from Columbus, Ohio, is a place where brooding peace seems eternally to dwell, a place of green fields and shading forests, yet on this spot was once Camp Chase Prison, in which want and suffering held high revel. In 1861 General McClellan was ordered to send his prisoners to Ohio. Regarding the jails as insecure, Gov. William Dennison ordered the erection of barracks on some land which the government leased, these barracks forming what was known as Camp Chase. This was for privates and noncommissioned officers, the officers being carried to Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. The first prisoners in Camp Chase were from the 23d Virginia Regiment, who were captured in the Kanawha Valley, but these prisoners, more fortunate than most, were soon exchanged. More rapidly took their places, however, and in 1863 there were eight thousand Confederates held in confinement in this one prison. In 1863 three women, a mother and two daughters eighteen and sixteen years of age, who were brought from Nashville, Tenn., were held prisoners in Camp Chase. These ladies had been very active in giving information to leaders and in aiding Confederate soldiers. The lease of the land, which was held by the government, continued till April, 1879, when the place was purchased by government authority and held as a Confederate cemetery, as two thousand three hundred Southern soldiers were buried there. While Rutherford B. Hayes was Governor of Ohio, the cemetery was put in good order and a man was employed to take care of it, but Governor Bishop refused to allow this expenditure of twenty five dollars a year, and the cemetery was allowed to grow up in weeds and underbrush. When Senator Foraker was made Governor, he called the attention of the government to the neglected condition of the graveyard, and an appropriation was made to put it in order and maintain it. A substantial stone wall has taken the place of the wooden fence which had surrounded the cemetery, which fence was built of the planks, from the old barracks when they were torn down after the war.