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Hello Bobby Lee,

Many political prisoners are also listed in the Official Records under the heading "Suspected and Disloyal Persons".

I'm pretty sure General Alfred Beckley wasn't at Camp Chase for 2 years. According to Beckley's autobiography:
"In April 1862, General John C. Freemont [Fremont] sent a telegraphic order from Wheeling to Col. Hays [Rutherford B. Hayes] to arrest me and send me under guard to the headquarters of the Mountain Department at Wheeling... After some detention, Freemont sent me on to Camp Chase Prison. I was in Pen No. 2 about a month when Governor Todd [David Tod] released me on my parole and gave the U.S. quartermaster orders to give me transportation to Raleigh County Court House."

Rutherford B. Hayes, future 19th president of the United States, kept Beckley's sword belt, and used it to adorn his horse.

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