Hello Tom, You're correct there are many incorrect tombstone. Just an hour ago I found a soldier who has a tombstone at Camp Chase that stated he was with the 51st Georgia Cavalry. He really was with the 51st Alabama Partisan Rangers. The boulder at Camp Chase states there were 2,260 men buried at the cemetery and this information came from Knauss. I've just completed my first go around and men who have names on tombstones are 2,149 assuming the NCA did not put additional tombstones in the cemetery since I've been there. I believe I know where the discrepancies are coming from but need a little more time yet. There are also men buried at the Chase Cemetery who do not have tombstones however I would be surprised if it were more than twenty. A few soldiers have tombstones at Chase who are not there and were never at Chase not to mention six Union head stones marked as Confederate at the Chase Cemetery. While the Federals did die at Camp Chase I don't believe they were reinterred at Chase in 1869 rather I believe they were reinterred to Green Lawn and buried with the Union soldiers. I know for sure at least one of them was because he had a tombstone at Green Lawn and archives from the Ohio Adjutant General reported his body was taken to the Green Lawn cemetery in December 1864 yet he has a tombstone also at Camp Chase.

Something that I use in non National Cemeteries is the information on ancestry. Most of the United States made tombstones for Confederate soldiers were made in Tate, Georgia after it was moved from Nelson, Georgia. Ancestry has a separate listing of tombstones ordered. Let's suppose someone filed for a Confederate tombstone from the government say in the 1930's. Once the government was convinced the information was correct they issued the stone to the person requesting it. Their name and address are on file and date of the tombstone was shipped is listed. This information should be of value to you and others and helps us to specifically date the tombstone. The latest date I've saw is 1961. Please forgive me if you know this information already. Your work in eastern Georgia has not gone unnoticed. Many thanks to you for keeping history alive and accurate.