File #77: "Camp Chase Cemetery in 1909"

Camp Chase Cemetery in 1909

Cropped Image of Camp Chase from a book called Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County,Ohio

In 1893, William Knauss, a former Union soldier, settled in Columbus; he found the cemetery in a state of disorder and cleaned up the cemetery.  Knauss came out with the idea to place a large boulder in the grounds’ center inscribing “2260 Confederate Soldiers of the war 1861-1865 buried in this enclosure.” Likewise, Knauss planned the first Memorial Day service at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in 1895. The Memorial Day events continued under Knauss’s leadership. Later, in 1899, the Camp Chase Memorial Association was founded to request funds for decorating graves and erecting the memorial. The memorial, dedicated in 1902, consists of a stone arch and a Confederate soldier’s zinc sculpture at parade rest. Inscribing on the arch’s keystone “AMERICANS .”[1]

William Alexander Taylor

Centennial history of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, 1, Chicago: S J Clarke Publishing Company, p. 163
 https://archive.org/stream/centennialhistor01tayl#page/163/mode/1up

[1] William H. Knauss, The Story of Camp Chase: A History of the Prison and its Cemetery, Together with Other Cemeteries Where Confederate Prisoners Are Buried (Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Smith & Lamar, Agents, 1906), xii-xiii, 62., https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044090078106 (accessed December 10, 2020).

 

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1909

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1909 Franklin County, Columbus,Ohio