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Show HONOR CONFEDERATE DEAD.' M Nearly nne-tenlh of the entire num. HJ ber of confederate aoldlere who died In HJ Northern prisons during the civil war HJ He burled at old Camp Chase, near Co- HJ lumbus, Ohio, unmarked even by wood. H en headstones, 3.180 graves there tell HJ of tha heroism with which confederate H soldiers perished un Northern soH.' HJ Since the late war these graves have H been nrglectod, but plant are now on HJ foot for erecting al Camp Chase an aj- HJ proprlate memorial to cost not low HJ than 84,000. Thla will be the gilt of HJ confederate veterans In Ohio and other HJ tales, Under the lawa of Ohio the. IHJ association In charge or the rooremrur. HJ baa been Incorporated and several. HJ large subscriptions have been received.' H The monument will be or granite and HH will be modeled ou the same lines aa HJ the "These Are My Jewels" monnment H Oblo'a tribute to her famous nona, H which, since the world's fair, haa been HJ standing lu the rapltol grounds. H Around the shaft wilt be grouptd six H figures tbrco general officers and H three enlisted men one of each reprc- H Mating the three grand divisions of H the Southern army the Army of VI r- HH glnla, the Army or Tenncsete and the HH Army of the Traua-MlssUtlppl. Boulb- HH era campa of Confederate Veterana will HH be aaked to aid the Columbus and HJ Nashville campa by contributing funds HJ y!L '"eaUwra HH fSrTrl U isaasaasaV ffrff (3 r aasal IfUL i HSelr-UfflJte'" I (Handsome Monument to n Erected HJ at Columbus In Memory of Southern. HJ era Who Dlwl In Northern Prison HJ and Who Now Lie In Unmarked HJ Graves.) tHJ (or the completion of the monument. HJ the granite work for which baa just HJ been contracted for. 1 HJj |