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Re: Huntsville, AL - April 11, 1862

Rick, the majority of the graves in row 41 at the Camp Chase Cemetery would lead us to believe there are double graves. All soldiers buried in row 41 including six Union troops who now have Confederate headstones were re-interred to the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. (CCCC) Row 41 is the most western row of graves at the CCCC, aside from the small group of rows 42 and 43 which constitute 10 graves in each of those two rows in the extreme North-Western section of the Camp Chase Cemetery. It appears that Captain Irving only took what he considered to be Confederate military from the Southeast City Cemetery. For example from what my research has indicated say grave number 25 and 26 just to throw out two numbers, were at the Southeast Cemetery. He then would re-inter those two bodies in one grave at the Camp Chase Cemetery. Captain Irving made a report to his commanding officer at the Great Lakes department by the name of General Bingham. He reported that he dug 58 Confederate graves at the Southeast City Cemetery and that eight (8) of them were empty. So according to the Captain he only brought over 50 Confederates from the City Cemetery. A lot more than that are now in row 41. One of three things have happened in my opinion. 1) Someone else brought over those bodies prior to Captain Irving someone like the VRC at Camp Chase after the War. 2) Some of the Confederate dead were buried near or at the Camp Chase Cemetery. We also have to remember that the Federal government only leased the land from the property owner in Kentucky and did not tell the owner about burying Confederates on his property until after the War. 3) The government knowing the Confederates had died at Camp Chase just made tombstones for them which I think may be the most likely scenario. We know for example that grave #2066 is not buried with himself. And we also know now that Major Casseday (which is the correct spelling not Cassady) was taken back to Louisville, for burial about 10 days after his death at Chase and buried at the Cave Hill Cemetery. Yet he has a tombstone at the CCCC. The Southeast City Cemetery was disbanded in 1881-1882. Many times headstones were just removed and the dead left. During the 1950's a lot of dead from the Southeast Cemetery were located when basements were being dug for homes near the Cemetery. The Southeast City Cemetery contained about 2,500 graves. The Childrens Hospital at Columbus, Ohio and Livingston Park now make up a lot of the 11 acres once belonging to the Southeast City Cemetery. The following is a very short story about the CCCC done by myself.

The CCCC in reality are three (3) cemeteries within one. 1) the CCCC was started on August 1, 1863 beginning at row 1 through 40 and buried from East to West and has nothing to do with rows 41,42 and 43. 2) The majority of tombstone inscriptions in row 41 came from the Southeast City Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio where they were buried from April 6, 1862 through July of 1863 and interred by contracted government undertakers by the name of Brotherlin & Halm's. Many of the bodies were brought to the CCCC from the Southeast City Cemetery by Captain Irving of the United States Quartermasters Department in May of 1869. Many of the tombstone inscriptions are listed as double burials in row 41, although it appears they were individually buried at the Southeast City Cemetery having their own grave number. 3) All of the tombstone inscriptions from row 42 and row 43 and eleven (11) from row 41 are Confederates who were originally buried at the Waldschmidt Cemetery at Camp Dennison, Ohio, near Cincinnati, as 31 bodies were re-interred to the CCCC in 1869. All 31 Confederate soldiers who were re-interred to the CCCC from Cincinnati died of wounds due to the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (April 6th and 7th of 1862) The CCCC became a National Cemetery in 1879.

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