My travels take me many places, and I consider myself
blessed. In June of 2010, I visited and spoke with the Civil War Round Table in
Columbus, Ohio. While in town, I visited the Camp Chase Confederate Prison Cemetery
and took photographs of as many North Carolina soldiers as I could find. This
is the grave of Pvt. James K. Goldsmith of Company G, 14th Battalion, North
Carolina Cavalry. Company G came primarily from Henderson County, North
Carolina. Records are poor, mostly limited to an undated bounty roll, except
for four men: James M. Calloway, Robert B. Clayton, David H. England, and James
R. Goldsmith. All four were captured on December 13, 1864, in Cooke county,
Tennessee, and all four were sent to Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. Clayton and
Goldsmith would not survive. Clayton died on February 11, 1865, of pneumonia,
and Goldsmith on January 28, 1865, of "general devility."(That's what
is says. I imagine it was supposed to be "debility," but I've known a
few folks who could have died of "devility," or could have killed
other people with it.).
I took this photo in June 2010.
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