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The last two soldiers to die at Camp Chase

Ironcially the last two soldiers to die at the Camp Chase Prison were not Confederate but rather Union soldiers. They were Hiram Oliver and J.W. Hartup both of Company A of the 43rd OVI. They were hanged next to prison number 1 at the Camp Chase Prison on September 6, 1865. Their bodies were given to their familes and taken back home. They are not buried at the Camp Chase Cemetery. The two soldiers were deserters from the Union Army although when I pulled Hiram Olivers CMSR's at the National Archives it showed him being discharged in 1862 from said unit. The Provost Marshall named Cook was after Hartup and from what I can gather also Oliver. Cook had a reputation of getting his deserters and tracking them down. When Oliver and Hartup found out who was going to be coming after them they came up with a plan. In late 1864 both Oliver and Hartup knocked on the door of Provost Marshall Cook's private home in Ohio. When he answered they ask to speak to Cook. When Cook replied who he was they took their revolvers out and shot him dead. However, the neighbors were able to identify who had shot Cook and the court-marital that followed in Cambridge, Ohio made State news. There are over three (3) roles of micro-film just on the trial of Hartup and Oliver at the National Archives. It would probably take a week or so to read the whole transcripts of the trial. As far as I know it was the first and last planned execution at Camp Chase.

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