100 Year Rededication Ceremony of the Bronze Monument to the Confederate Soldiers at Johnson's Island

Click on the word Dixie for a link to a video of the band playing "Dixie." A news article about this event is featured in the News Messenger.

June 12, 2010

Ceremony at Johnson's Island to be Held on June 12, 2010

The Ohio Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will rededicate the monument at the Cemetery on Johnson's Island at the site of the former Civil War prison camp which housed hundreds of Confederate officers during the war. The Sandusky Register features a front page article today, by Sarah Weber, which discusses the upcoming event. Photos of the bronze monument sculpted by Moses Ezekiel also appear in the the article, taken by Register photographer Laura Woolf.

Photographs taken at the original unveiling of the Confederate Cemetery monument in 1910 appear at the Sandusky History blog.