The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-06-15
OUR NOBLE DEAD
Henss;l Erected n Ohio 10 Confederate
Soldiers VIE Died
DURING WAR In PRISON

US4S2ASV b6A&N A@s
Dedic.tory Exercises Held on 'oho'
sons Island Neutrality-suspicious.
rs~oe Unveiled BY Daughter OF .
Noted Southern Patrtoe--toi'n''
ration Of Movement.
IN ,he ,,esence OF several hundred
southerners, representing nearly all
OF the States in the ceafederacy' :
monument to the memory OF -oo
c,,eeserste ofscers and pr!vates.
hnr;es on Johnson's Island. SanduskS
say Lake Erie. vas dedicated Wed
pesday. 49,
the monument. erected by the
Rober, Patton Chapter Of the United
n,nph,ezs OF the Confederacy. OF
CINCINNATI. was unveiled By Mss-
Mary Patton Hudson. Of Cincinnati
daneh,e, of Robert Patton. noseo
Southern Ranger.
The dedicatory address was deii'.
cred by Cen Geo. W. Gordan. OF
Memphis. Tennessee. commanoet-'n-
chief OF the United States veterans
Other addresses were delivered oS
cen Reunet. II. Young. OF Louis
Vile: Joseph A. Mangus. OF Cinc'n.
na.ti. and Sir Moses Ezekiei. o.
Rome. Italy. designer Of the moHa-
pent Sir Moses Ezekiel was s't
dier under Gen. Roet- E. Lee.
The movement. 70 erect the staae
or;rina.ed with the Robert Patton
chatter Of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy. Of Cincinnati. ONO.
The chapter purchased the ceme-
sery In 1908, when /. was found tna'
the spot around which so many ms
.o,.ca! memories clustered was oe-
Ing neglected and practically aoan-
doned. Its only visitors were sae
veterans OF Grand Army Post. WHO
every Decoration Day held memorial
services for their former soes.
.pror to this. however. one eHor'
had been made to save the cemetery
r,ern the neglect into which 1t had
fallen. In 1889 party OF editors
ard o.acsals Of the state OF Georgia
visited the island They saw Only
broken fences and weed-sro"h
mounds. Stirred by the sisht. they
returned home and raised a rnnd.
which provided headstores OF GeoF-
s;a marble for each OF the zVo
graves. II was then found taat %
q, them must remain nameless. for
the memory Of the buried had van
ished
Lieut.. Col. William Hoffman. Fed
xral commissary general OF prisoners.
isased forty acres Of land on JOIN
sons Island In the fall Of 1851 from
3. Johnson. The intention was 10
use this land solely for the accom-
dation Of Confederate cHce-s and. al
though during the Subsequent years
OF the war small bodies OF private>
we're from time to time sen: 10 the
island. It was usually through erro,
and they were invariably promptly
drafted to other prisons The island
lies in Sandusky Bay. about three
miles from the town Of Sanduskv.
and the post who known oHciaiiy as
Depot Prisoners Of War. johnson $
Island, near Sandusky. Ohio.
The sreateet number OF prisoners
confined on the island at any one
time was about 5000. This was
inst prior to the close Of sae war
Al, In all. abou. 10000 officers and
scldiers were Imprisoned there ana
22e deaths were recorded Fourteen
OF the dead were oudied on the man
land
When the first prisoners died Mr..
johnson gave his consent to theit
burial on the Island, and the Gene
terv was laid out under his personal
direction. 40 lease on the land was
over executed. and no compensation
x,yen for its use. Subsequently. al
.se close Of the war. ST. johnson.
at his own expense. built ~are
fence around the plot and kept II
In repair FOR several years La'ef
on an offscer from the Columbus Fed
eral barracks visited the island ane
had the original fence removed ahd
a more substantial one erected IN
its stead.
For many years Afterwards the
cemetery was allowed to fall intc
decay. until in 1881. the Veterans
o. NcMeens. Post. Grand Army o:
the Republic. OF Sandusky. Ohio. pa''
a generous tribute 70 the men wn
had fought against them. They IA
.ha cemetery weeded and cared 'or-
and on the Memorial Day following
held services there similar + those
held over the Union dead in Oak
land Cemetery. Sandusky
Every succeeding Memorial Day ~
20 three years ago they carried ou'
s;milar services. as the veterans
were all men IL advanced years they
ve-e forced 70 discontinue their trips
TO ,se island. They decided also In
view Of the fact that up to that time
practically no interest had peer
shown in the Confederate graves o!
either the relatives or trienos o
those buried there. there was n'
demand oo them to continue tn'
services
This action BY Grand Army pos
became widely known and drew tn
attention Of the various Confederate
organizations throughout the coun
try to the neglected conditions OF on
OF the most memorable landmark
OF the great struggle. The DauEh
..rc ~ the ConfeSeracy became IN