Stories About Camp Chase
• Confederates Going Home
- What happened when the Confederates were released from prison camps, how they got back home, includes a picture of a travel pass
• Texas Soldiers
- Listing of Texas soldiers buried at cemetery – Texans and Confederate headstones for soldiers
• The following speech about three soldiers buried at Camp Chase was given in June 14, 2015 by Monty Chase during the Hilltop Historical Society's Camp Chase Memorial Service.
- Men who faced the great challenge of their time, ordinary men who valued something more than they valued their own lives.
• Body Snatching
- How Confederate soldiers’ bodies were robbed from fresh graves in the cold months of the year to be sold to schools for medical dissection/research
• Lt. James O. Norton Co. F/K 32nd TN Infantry, C.S.A.
- Dr. Norton’s grave was not marked as Confederate, could this have saved him from having his dead body snatched and sold to a medical school?
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and the Camp Chase Cemetery
- How Gen George Stoneman stormed Salisbury, NC in hopes of freeing Union prisoners and how the maneuver became a first-person account of a 1960’s song by Robbie Robertson.
• Private Michael Spence
- A Confederate Veteran of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg and member of Columbus Camp #1181 of United Confederate Veterans
• Captain Benjamin L. Wilkes Clack's 3rd Tennessee Infantry
- A mysterious headstone – engraved twice with the same name
• Thomas Battle Turley who became a Tennessee U.S. Senator
- Although only at Camp Chase a short time, he endured terrible conditions, but went on to become a TN Senator
• W.H. Lastinger (grave #225) Company K 29th Georgia Regiment CSA - Back from the dead?
- The story of who is buried in grave #225
• Facts About Camp Chase
- Interesting facts about Camp Chase cemetery
• Post Arkansas Confederate dead at the Camp Chase Cemetery
- Confederate officers originally interred at Southeast City cemetery, now rest in Row 41 of Camp Chase cemetery in double burials
• So-called Confederate Spy Plotted to Free Camp Chase Prisoners (Reported in Columbus Dispatch but inaccurate)
- Sets the record straight about Andrew J. Marlow
• Kidwell and United Confederate Veteran Camp 1181 in Columbus
- A teen aged boy takes on a soldier’s role and survives Pickett’s Charge
• The soldier behind the legend of the "Lady in Grey:
- Is this soldier the one the “Lady in Grey” mourns?
• The Captain and His Sergeant
- The story of S.A. Cunningham (of the Confederate Veteran Magazine) finding his Capt William L. Brown, Co B, 41st TN Infantry buried at Camp Chase
• A Lincoln Amnesty Oath
- Starting the journey back home - Taking the oath and release from prison
• A Confederates Adventure Helps To Establish Confederate Prisoner Flow To Camp Chase
- Escape attempts before being transported to prison camp
• The Engagements Before, During And After Utoy Creek, Georgia - Extracts taken from biographies of Camp Chase
- 138 soldiers’ stories after being taken prisoner
• Andrew Jefferson Caldwell a POW at Camp Chase
- A Walker County, GA resident joins the Confederate forces and is taken prisoner
• 616 Days: The Story About the Confederate Statue
- How the bronze statue was toppled by vandals and how “Fred” again took his post on top the arch in Camp Chase Cemetery
• Private John F. Ingram
- The story of John F. Ingram – a “typical” soldier’s death at Camp Chase
• Salmon Portland Chase and some facts of the 1857 Dred Scott Decision
- How Chase was influential in history, including some landmark court cases
• The Lady Behind the Veil: The Life of Louisiana Ransburgh Briggs
- The story of the “real” Lady in Grey at Camp Chase Cemetery
• A Missing Grave and Tombstone at the Camp Chase Cemetery
- Missing grave #59 – is William L. Pope buried there or not?
• The Ensign
- How the traditionally Naval rank of Ensign was used in the Confederate Army
• Scout, Spy, Soldier, Civilian? The Legacy of Mary Ann Wright
- A story of a woman in the Confederate service
• Who Is/Was Buried In Grave #63 At Camp Chase Cemetary
- So who lies in eternal rest in grave #63??
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Brothers in life and military service, but who actually survived and who is buried in #525?
• Civil War soldiers buried as Confederate may actually be Union
- Not all who eternally slumber at Camp Chase are Confederates