Camp Dennison, Ohio

Waldschmidt Cemetery is located on land purchased from former
New Jersey judge and Congressman John Cleves Symmes in
1795 by Christian Waldschmidt, one of the first settlers
in the Little Miami River Valley. Waldschmidt, from Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, was a veteran of the American Revolution, and
he and his family are buried here. During the Civil War
this area, named for Governor William Dennison, served as a
training site and hospital for the Union effort. A portion
of the cemetery was the temporary interment site for 349
Union soldiers and 31 Confederate prisoners of war, most
of whom died at the camp hospital. On July 4, 1869, the
Union soldiers were moved to Spring Grove Cemetery in
Cincinnati. About the same time, the Confederate soldiers
we reinterred in Chase Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.

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