I was wondering if you might know how the Blueridge Quarry that cut the headstones for Camp Chase managed to get so many of the the names and other details of the Confederate dead incorrect. Do you know where they got their list of names from?

The 1907 Government Printing office publication of the list of names appears to reflect the same headstone names as produced by the quarry; if I undestand it correctly, the quarry did not start setting the headstones untill 1908 so, I'm guessing that the 1907 list is based upon (or is) the same list used by the quarry.

Up until the time when the headstones were cut, most plats and burial lists seemed to stay consistent with the burial registers created by the Camp Chase clerks during the War. Col. Knauss's list in the appendix of his 1906 book about Camp Chase even recreated some of the incorrect clerical transcriptions (e.g., regiment, company, name spelling, etc.) produced by the clerks when copying prisoner information from the original prison enrollment registers to the cemetery burial register.

Do you have any insight as to how and why there is this discrepancy between the register names and the headstone names?

Thanx,
Dave