Because of mistakes of the 1907 register at least 6 Confederates have turned out to be Union soldiers as an example. There are at least 5 headstones that the bodies do not exist. As an example in grave # 2068 which is a double burial the body of Major Alex Cassady is really Major Alexander C. Casseday. Casseday's memorial # at Find A Grave is 9901786 and his wife Nannie also has an obituary taken from and that being the Louisville Couier-Journal on November 26, 1896. Nannie Casseday his wife can be found on FAG or memorial # 51050297. Together they tell a story of Major Alexander C. Casseday's life his date of birth January 23, 1836 to his death on March 24, 1862 in Columubus, Ohio. The CMSR's gives us alternative spellings of his name as Cassady/Cassedey/Casseday. However using genealogy and FAG not only do we find his correct spelling but also of his disinterrment from the City Cemetery to the Cave Hill Cemetery, located in Cave Hill Kentucky in Louisville. Alexander C Casseday's Section is B and he is buried in Lot 75. [this information was provided by the Cave Hill Cemetery phone number 502-451-5630 According to them Alexander C. Casseday was buried on April 4, 1862.] The CMSR's also gives his parole release from the Camp Chase commander (Colonel Moody) for his purpose of going to a local doctor for treatment in Columbus, Ohio. It is my opinion that when Major Casseday died he was buried for a very short time at the Southeast Cemetery and did have a wooden headboard. When his wife and father came to Columbus, Ohio to claim the body no one ever removed his wooden headboard from the Southeast Cemetery. Thus 7 years later people like Tolford still believed that Casseday was still there. How would he have known otherwise? Colonel Moody would have been long gone etc.
On the flip side we have one man who is buried twice. George Simpkins is buried at two seperate graves at Camp Chase. In grave number 8 and grave 241. I believe that he is the soldier buried in grave 241 as everything is correct about his unit and time of capture etc. Did Tolford make this mistake or did others? These are but just a few of the mistakes at the Camp Chase Cemetery.
The last soldier to die at Camp Chase did so on August 20, 1865. By July of 1865 the Veteran Reserve Corps would have been at Camp Chase. I don't see these soldiers burying the Confederate dead however I could be wrong. Rather I think it was the private firm from Columbus, Ohio burying those last Confederate Soldiers at the Chase Cemetery. If this small private firm did bury all of the Confederate dead at Chase then there must be a lot of mass burials. On February 1, 1865 grave number 992 was made. The winter of 1864-65 was one of the worst in the history of Columbus. The ground must have been very hard to dig in. The War would be over in about 9 weeks from that point and more than 2,000 Confederates would die at Camp Chase. In just 9 weeks about half of all of the Confederate dead at Chase would be buried. That is an amazing stat alone.