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Camp Chase Confederate Prisoner Camp was one of the largest Union prisoner of war camps from the Civil War.
(Map courtesy of the Tiger Map Service, U.S. Census Bureau.)
Most of the camp has been developed into the Columbus neighborhood known as Westgate. A visit to the remaining cemetery seems peaceful compared to the poor conditions Confederate prisoners suffered at the camp:
The historic marker in front of the cemetery--I couldn't get a picture to come out that you could read.
The front gate, taken from the middle of Sullivant Av.
This is the top of the monument you can see behind the gate above.
Here is the boulder at the bottom of the monument.
A single grave marker, just like all the rest.
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