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Camp Chase is a Confederate Cemetery created on farmland outside of Columbus, Ohio. It began as a training facility preparing Ohio volunteers for the battlefronts of the Civil War. The camp extended its operations to include thousands of Confederate enlisted men after the Union victories. About 2,000 Confederate soldiers died at the camp due to exposure to diseases and malnutrition. Camp Chase commemorates the men who died at the camp in addition to the many rows of peaked white marble headstones.[1]
On August 22, 2017, the unknown soldier at Camp Chase Confederate monument was knocked over, and the soldier’s head decapitated. Police Lt. Clifton Dean stated that possibly occurred when striking the column in the fall to the ground. The vandals run away with the head and leaving the hat behind. Douglas Ledbetter, Director of Dayton/Marion National Cemeteries, who is part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Association, stated that he oversees Camp Chase. The soldier statue was standing near the arch facing north with the hat sitting on its headless body, and initially, the statue faced south. The Department of Veterans Affairs stated that it had no plans to take down Confederate monuments.[3]
On May 1, 2019, the Confederate soldier’s statue was repaired and placed back at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. On August 11 and 12, 2019, during a protest to remove Confederate monuments, a Toledo-area man drove against the protesters killing a woman and injuring dozens of people.[4]
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William H Knauss and the United Daughters of Confederacy and several other organizations contributed to fundraising.
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[1] “Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Columbus, Ohio,” National Park Service, accessed December 10, 2020, https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/Ohio/Camp_Chase_Confederate_Cemetery.html.
[2] “Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Columbus, Ohio,” National Park Service, accessed December 10, 2020, https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/Ohio/Camp_Chase_Confederate_Cemetery.html.
[3] 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).
[4] Beth Burger and Mark Ferenchik, “Vandals decapitate confederate soldier statue at Camp Chase cemetery,” The Columbus Dispatch, August 22, 2017, https://www.dispatch.com/news/20170822/vandals-decapitate-confederate-soldier-statue-at-camp-chase-cemetery.
[5] Mark Ferenchik, “Repaired Statue of Confederate Soldier Reinstalled at Camp Chase Cemetery,” The Columbus Dispatch, May 1, 2019, https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190501/repaired-statue-of-confederate-soldier-reinstalled-at-camp-chase-cemetery.