The main entrance was on the National Road 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Western Virginia and Kentucky civilians suspected of actively supporting secession, including former three-term United States Congressman Richard Henry Stanton were held at the facility.

[4] The prison camp also held Confederates captured during Morgan's Raid in 1863, including Col.

Because of this, the Union and the CSA agreed to exchange prisoners to stop the suffering of men on both sides.

[2][8] The Lady in Gray is purportedly an apparition that haunts Camp Chase Cemetery.

The woman is described as young, in her late teens or early twenties, dressed entirely in gray, and carrying a clean white handkerchief.

The legend of the Lady in Gray dates back to just after the Civil War, when visitors to Camp Chase spotted the woman walking through the cemetery, trying to read the carved names on the marked grave markers.

A corner stone to the camp is located in front of the Westgate #623 Masonic Temple, in a community in the Hilltop section of west Columbus.

[11] Miller, Robert Earnest, "War Within Walls: Camp Chase and the Search for Administrative Reform," Ohio History 96 (Winter Spring 1987): 33 56