LETTERS FROM CAMP CHASE, OH
Transcribed by Nancie O'Sullivan

[Source: Confederate Veteran, September, 1929]

"AFTER SIXTY-FIVE YEARS"
List of letters written by and to prisoners at CAMP CHASE, Ohio, which were found in the Ohio State Library and later turned over to the Ohio Division, U.D.C., of which Mrs. Albert Sidney Porter is President. It is the desire of the Division to return these letters to descendants of the men who wrote them or of those to whom addressed, or to the writers, if any are living. Claims should be made to Mrs Porter, Lakeland, Ohio, giving proof of claim....

TENNESSEE:

JOHN WALKER to MRS. PHILLIS WALKER, Memphis.

M.R. SYKES, Columbia, Tenn., to MR. GEORGE MARTIN, Camp Chase.

MARY SYKES, Columbia, Tenn. to EUGENE O. SYKES[ brother] Camp Chase.

W.M. SMITH to I.S. REYNOLDS, Esq. Huntsville.

JOHN and NANCY SCIVALLY, Lynchburg, Lincoln County, Tenn., to J.N. SCIVALLY, Camp Chase.

F.A. RAGSDALE to W.J. BROOKS, or J.W. MARKHAM, Memphis.

MRS. BLANKA W. OVERBY, Hickman, Tenn., to WILSON OVERBY, Camp Chase.

M.S. NEELY to MRS.JULIA NEELY, Denmark, Madison Co.

A. MOFFITT to MISS M.J. MOFFITT, Covington, Tipton County.

ANDREW LOWE to MRS. MARTHA A. LOWE, Midway Depot, Green Co.

A.S. LEVY to MISS ELLA LEVY, Memphis.

THOMAS KIRTLAND to BEN MAY, Esq., Bank of West Tennessee, Memphis.

THEODORE KELSEY to Ben MAY, Esq. Bank of West Tenn.

W.M. HUGHES to MISS E.K. FUSSELL, Columbia ; to MR. W.G. and MRS. MARY M. HUGHES, no address.

J.T. HAMM to MR. JOHN M. HAMM, Gravel Hill.

JOHN G. HALL to Gen. J.A. CURNES, Memphis.

JOHN J. GUTHRIE, JR. to MRS. JOHN J. GUTHRIE, JR., Memphis.

JAMES GRIFFIN to AMOS and DAPHNE LEATHERMAN, Memphis.

URIAH GARDENER to MRS. MARY GARDENER[ mother], Jackson.

NATHAN CROSS, Nashville to Connally F. FIGG, ESQ., no address.

{ Sure would be interesting to know if any family member received any of these letters, 65 years after they were written