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Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio was a Union training camp and a Confederate prison camp during the U.S. Civil War. It also served as a parole camp early in the war.

A parole camp was a place where Union soldiers on parole could be kept by their own side, in a non-combat role. The idea being that eventually the Union and Confederates would have a formal exchange of an equal number of prisoners, and then the parolees could return to the ranks. This practice ending before the end of the Civil War.

The following item is available to researchers in the Archives & Library at the Ohio History Center:

MSS 8728 VOL 1683 Camp Chase Roster - Register of paroled soldiers that were quartered at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. 

See Prisoner Exchange and Parole by Roger Pickenpaugh for more information.