B> The second soldier should be Private Jacob Lake Company G 90th Pennsylvania Infantry USA Before I get into the history of Private Jacob Lake I would like to share what might have happened to cause the misidentification of this soldier. Needless to say this is speculation. Until now the other Union soldiers buried at Camp Chase came from border states, save Tennessee when an error just occurred in their units, the correct units were listed but the Union authorities failed to recognize them as Union military units. For example Taylor Ellis was listed as being with the 1st West Tennessee Regiment, he was but this was a Union unit, also known as the 6th Tennessee Cavalry. However, a Union soldier from a Pennsylvania unit should never have been confused with a Confederate. When Jacob Lake was buried at the Southeast City Cemetery in grave #34 by Brotherlin & Halms (contracted government undertakers) on September 24, 1862 the wooden grave marker may have read: Jacob Lake Co. G 90 Penn. Reg. Years would have passed before Chaplain Tolford went to the Southeast City Cemetery to copy the names of the soldiers. I speculate that because of decay on the wood that the 2,3,4 and 5 o'clock position of the letter P was no longer visible. The P now looked like a T. The 90th Penn. became the 90th Tenn. Because both Union and Confederate soldiers were buried at the Southeast City Cemetery mistakes may have been made. The only other scenario that comes to mind is that Jacob Lake was listed as being a deserter according to his Compiled Military Service Records during the War and the Union authorities put him into a Confederate grave yard to somehow justify his poor military behavior. If that was the case and I don't think it was, then the Union authorities made a mistake because well after the War Private Jacob Lake's status as a deserter was removed from his service records. Another reason for Jacob Lake not being with the 90th Tennessee Infantry is that the 90th Tennessee Regiment did not exist. Furthermore Private Jacob Lake is not on the Confederate dead list at Camp Chase nor should he be. He is not listed as ever being a Confederate prisoner at Camp Chase. If I am correct then this might give us an insight as to how the wooden markers may have looked at least at the Southeast City Cemetery at this time period. It would appear that states were not spelled out at least not the long ones. Private Jacob Lake enlisted in Company G of the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on June 14, 1862. According to his Compiled Military Service Records he deserted on August 5, 1862. His parents are believed to be Jacob and Susan Lake from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the 1850 and 1860 census Jacob Lake of the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry was born about 1840. What is not speculation but rather a fact from Private Jacob F. Lake's Company G 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Compiled Military Service Records was that he died at the Camp Chase hospital of typhoid fever on September 23, 1862 and buried the next day September 24, 1862 the exact same day that a reported Confederate named Jacob Lake died with Company G of the 90th Tennessee Infantry which as already stated did not exist. In my opinion it is blatantly obvious that the body in grave #2091 at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery buried with Confederate Private Joseph Flint is a United States Soldier buried with his former adversaries. Private Jacob Lake's body would be re-interred to the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery by Captain Irving of the United States Quartermasters Department in May of 1869 because of the misidentification.
JACOB LAKE OWNED NO SLAVES according to the census of 1860 slave schedule.
For further documentation and to view Private Jacob Lake's CMSR's see Find A Grave memorial #74009738