A Southern soldier whose body was stolen from his grave has been honored in a Memorial Day ceremony at a Confederate cemetery in Ohio. Ann Hartman of Griffin, Ga., says her great-great-grandfather, Hiram Bland, was captured during battle in July 1864 and taken to Camp Chase prison camp in Columbus, where he died months later. Hartman says his body, which was never found, was stolen by a team of grave robbers just hours after it was buried. The bodies of more than 2,000 Confederate prisoners of war are buried in Camp Chase Cemetery. A chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gave Hartman a memorial stone in Bland's honor on Monday. They also sang "Dixie" and sprinkled Southern soil on the ground.
(Associted Press/The Columbus Dispatch)
(Associted Press/The Columbus Dispatch)
