Jack: So everyone better understands. Camp Chase is in Columbus. Johnson's Island is off Sandusky in Lake Erie. Both were Union prisons housing Confederates and had a lot of deaths from disease and burials of Confederates along with a Union soldier from Indiana shot for treason. Most POW's were officers. Johnson's Island was built to ease the load of Camp Chase. Camp Chase was located downtown Columbus near 2nd and Broadway Sts. There is a lot of interesting material about both on the web. American History magazine had a good two part article back in 1998. I have a book and video called "Rebel Fire/Yankee Ice" about Johnson's Island if you want to borrow it. Johnson's Island was sort of a Northern Andersonville, but you never heard about it in the north. Conditions, mostly climate and food were terrible. Hence, the great amount of deaths. David Bush from Heidelberg (OH) University has done a tremendous amount of archealogical research on the property. Both Federal and Prison sites and cemetery along with Rich Green of HAR, over the last few years. I've been especially interested in it all, because my great-grandfather was a Union Guard who transported prisoners from Camp Chase to Johnson's Island and stood guard duty many a cold winter there. David Bush has a website at http://heidelberg.edu/~dbush/ or go to any search engine for Johnson's Island or Camp Chase. Rootweb has Tennessee Confederate Burials listed, etc. etc. Good Stuff, if you're interested and quite a place to see. Jon Andrews >From: Jb502000@aol.com >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [INPCRP] Confederate Cemetery in Middle of Ohio >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:52:37 EST > > >I thought someone may like to know the following; > > I Ran across an article published in the Akron Beacon Journal, >Sunday, May 24, 1998. I thought it was interesting, because it says most >people in the area of Columbus don't know it's a Confederate Cemetery. >Originally there was a "Camp Chase" on Johnson's Island which At one time >held 9,416 Southern Prisoners. The Confederate Dead are buried in the one >time camp. The article says since Real Estate Developers have built a >causeway off Marblehead Peninsula, visitors have been able to pay a toll >and >drive over and see the Johnson Island Cemetery. The Island is in Sandusky >Bay. There is a Historical Marker at the Entrance Rd. near 10414 Bay Shore >rd. East of Lakeside and Marblehead. The Article can be found at ; >www.ohio.com/travel/fran/docs/052498.html > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.