Burials Page 6

Burials of Men of the 38th Alabama Infantry at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio.
From The Story of Camp Chase by William H. Knauss (11 men)

French, Willis, Co. F., April 23, 1865, #1902
Hobbs, R. C., Co. E., Sept. 16, 1864, #248
Hollis, D., Co.I., Aug. 27, 1864, #220
Jackson, J. E., Co. B., Mar. 9, 1865, #1596
Kirk, John N., Co. B., Mar. 27, 1865, #1763
McGhee, Lynn, Co. K., Feb. 27, 1865, #1468
McGilbury, David, Co. B., Jan. 11, 1865, #744
Scarber, Edgar, Co. D., Jan. 28, 1865, #947
Sheppard, Philip, Co. B. Jan. 30, 1865, #973
Stephens, William, Co. B. Feb. 26, 1865, #1453
Widham, B. F., Co. E. Feb. 28, 1865, #1482




Confederate Graves at Camp Chase.  Back to the Camp Chase Feature.




Pvt. Wade Hampton Teat, a member of Company F, was born in 1829 and died in 1910. He is buried in the cemetery at Mountain Creek Old Soldiers Home Confederate Park near Verbena, Alabama.

2nd Lt. Newton Johnston, Company E, is buried in Conecuh County in a family cemetery. His grave is marked with a CSA headstone. Photo of Lt. Johnston   Back to Company E

View of the layout of Camp Chase (left).

Camp Chase was located four miles southwest of Columbus, Ohio, and at one time held 9,400 southern prisoners. It was said that 25,000 Confederates passed through the prison. There are 2035 Sons of the South buried at Camp Chase Cemetery. Eleven of those are veterans of the 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers.

See James Leon Windham's photos of these eleven gravestones.

2nd Lt. Lee F. Irwin, Company G, is buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. Photo of Lt. Irwin.




Ezekiel Jones fought with Company E, 38th Alabama Infantry and is buried in Flatrock Cemetery in Evergreen, Alabama. According to Ancestry.com, "Civil War Compiled Military Service Records," there is an alternate name of Jones, Zedeck E.S.

Lt. Robert T. Davis, Company B., is buried in a family graveyard in Clarke County. (photo below) Back to Company B

2nd Lt. W. D. Cole is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Back to Company F