Description: This image shows the dome of the Mississippi State Capitol in the distance. This is the third capitol building in Mississippi and was built on the site of the old state penitentiary. The $1,093,641 construction cost was paid by the Illinois Central Railroad's back taxes. As of 2009, it held the executive and legislative branches of the state government. In 1979, a 4-year, $19-million restoration began. It is in the Beaux-Arts style. The Art Deco building on the right is the Mississippi War Memorial Building, which was built in 1939 as a Works Progress Administration project. This is next to Mississippi's old capitol building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_531
Subjects: Capitols--Mississippi; War memorials--Mississippi; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Jackson (Mississippi); 501 N. West St.
 

Description: This image shows the rear facade of the Old Mississippi State Capitol. This is an example of Greek Revival architecture. The building served as the capitol building from 1839 to 1903 and was restored in 1959-1960. It is a national historical landmark, currently housing the Mississippi State Historical Museum, and is also known as the Old Capitol Museum or the Old State Capitol. In 1890, this was the site of the enactment of a system of disenfranchisement of blacks by the State Constitution, after which other southern states modeled their own systems. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_532
Subjects: Capitols--Mississippi; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); arches; Greek Revival
Places: Jackson (Mississippi); 100 N. State St.
 

Description: This image shows the side and front facades of the Old Mississippi State Capitol. This is an example of Greek Revival architecture. The building served as the capitol building from 1839 to 1903 and was restored in 1959-1960. It is a national historical landmark, currently housing the Mississippi State Historical Museum, and is also known as the Old Capitol Museum or the Old State Capitol. In 1890, this was the site of the enactment of a system of disenfranchisement of blacks by the State Constitution, after which other southern states modeled their own systems. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_534
Subjects: Capitols--Mississippi; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); arches; Greek Revival
Places: Jackson (Mississippi); 100 N. State St.
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Old Mississippi State Capitol. This is an example of Greek Revival architecture. The building served as the capitol building from 1839 to 1903 and was restored in 1959-1960. It is a national historical landmark, currently housing the Mississippi State Historical Museum, and is also known as the Old Capitol Museum or the Old State Capitol. In 1890, this was the site of the enactment of a system of disenfranchisement of blacks by the State Constitution, after which other southern states modeled their own systems. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_533
Subjects: Capitols--Mississippi; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); arches; Greek Revival
Places: Jackson (Mississippi); 100 N. State St.
 

Description: This image shows the cornerstone of the Old Mississippi State Capitol. This is an example of Greek Revival architecture. The building served as the capitol building from 1839 to 1903 and was restored in 1959-1960. It is a national historical landmark, currently housing the Mississippi State Historical Museum, and is also known as the Old Capitol Museum or the Old State Capitol. In 1890, this was the site of the enactment of a system of disenfranchisement of blacks by the State Constitution, after which other southern states modeled their own systems. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_535
Subjects: Capitols--Mississippi; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); arches; Greek Revival
Places: Jackson (Mississippi); 100 N. State St.
 

Description: A crowd listens as a woman plays acoustic guitar at a political rally. A large banner hangs behind the stage reading "End Jackson Kent Coverups," referring to the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University and by police at Mississippi's Jackson State College. Both tragedies occurred in response to student antiwar protests in May of 1970. This photograph is included in a collection of images published in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F01_01
Subjects: Demonstrations; Protests and protestors; Musical performances; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a view of Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. Rows of headstones mark the soldiers' graves. Visible in the left center background is a bronze figure of a Confederate soldier standing atop a stone arch. The cemetery is located in a residential neighborhood. Organized in 1861, Camp Chase initially replaced Camp Jackson, located near Columbus, as a recruitment and training center for the Union Army. The facility was named after Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln and former governor of Ohio. However, Camp Chase became a prisoner-of-war camp early in the war. The first inmates at Camp Chase were chiefly political and military prisoners from Kentucky and Western Virginia allegedly loyal to the Confederacy. Union victories at Fort Donaldson, Tennessee, on Feb. 16, 1862, and at Mississippi River Island No. 10, on April 8, 1862, brought an influx of Confederate prisoners to Camp Chase, most of whom were enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. During 1863 the prison population at Camp Chase numbered 8,000 men, its peak. Like many prisons in the north, Camp Chase was ravaged by disease; during late 1864, a smallpox epidemic resulted in many deaths. During the course of the Civil War, more than two thousand Confederate prisoners died at Camp Chase. Initially, prison officials buried dead prisoners in a Columbus city cemetery. In 1863, however, the prison established its own cemetery. Remains were reinterred in the prison cemetery after its opening. Following the war, thirty-one Confederate bodies from Camp Dennison near Cincinnati were moved to the Camp Chase cemetery. The Union military closed Camp Chase at the end of the Civil War. Efforts to mark the graves of the Confederate dead within the cemetery began by the mid-1890s. Led by William H. Knauss, a wounded Union Army veteran, this movement succeeded in bringing together both Union and Confederate veterans’ organizations to pay tribute to those interred in the cemetery. Memorial services have been held at the cemetery every year since 1896. On June 7, 1902, a monument to the Confederate dead was erected at the cemetery. In 1904, Congress allocated funds for the maintenance of Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Most of what remains of Camp Chase today includes two acres of land, consisting primarily of the Confederate cemetery. Officially, the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery contains an estimated 2,168 remains in 2,122 graves. Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery has two monuments. The first depicts a bronze figure of a Confederate Civil War soldier standing atop a granite arch, his rifle held vertically in front of him, with both hands resting on the top of the barrel. Originally the memorial consisted of a wooden arch inscribed with the word “AMERICANS,” but in 1902 the wooden arch was replaced with this 17' tall stone memorial. The second monument is a 3-foot-tall boulder underneath the stone arch. Installed in 1897, the boulder bears an inscription that reads: "2260 Confederate Soldiers of the war 1861-1865 buried in this enclosure." (This statistic disagrees with the official record.) The Camp Chase site, including the Confederate Cemetery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06659
Subjects: Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio); Camp Chase (Ohio); Civil War; Cemeteries--Ohio; Civil War--Prisoners and prisons; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This unidentified young woman's portrait was found on the body of Civil War soldier Thomas Kilgore. Kilgore served with the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) and died in Jackson Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on July 2, 1863 at the age of 18. An ambrotype is an early photograph created by imaging a negative on glass backed by a dark surface. This ambrotype measures 2.75" by 3" (6.99 by 7.62 cm). The 95th O.V.I. was organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio under Colonel William L. McMillen on August 19, 1862. The next day it proceeded to Kentucky and soon engaged in the disastrous battle at Richmond, where most of the regiment was captured. The men were exchanged in November, and until May, 1863, were kept at work in drill and reorganization. The regiment fought at Vicksburg and Nashville, formed part of an expedition marching into the interior of Mississippi, and operated in Arkansas and Missouri. It followed in the pursuit of Hood, and joined Canby at Mobile. On August 19, 1865 the regiment was mustered out after sustaining a loss of more than 500 men during its term of service. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1447_1160832_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Military Ohio; Civil War; 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Broadside listing volunteers in Company D of the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as well as memoranda of military actions and illustrations of patriotic scenes, as of May 19, 1863. Individual privates are listed in alphabetical order, as well as regimental and company officers. According to the broadside, the company was primarily recruited from Jackson, Ohio, and mustered into service on November 17, 1861, at Camp Diamond in Jackson. Their engagements included the Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Holly Springs, and Grant's expedition into Mississippi. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS0186
Subjects: 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Jackson County (Ohio); Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military Ohio
Places: Jackson (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio);