COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)- A local burial site with over two thousand Confederate soldiers could see its annual memorial using the Confederate battle flag banned. An ongoing debate in Congress would ban the Confederate flag at all federal parks.

That would include Camp Chase in the Hilltop, which was a prisoner of war camp during the Civil War for 10,000 soldiers from the South.

There are row after row of neatly carried and maintained gravestones in Camp Chase located near Sullivant and Hague Avenues.

For one day every June, those stones are marked with a Confederate flag during a memorial service.

But because this park is administered by Veterans Affairs, that could stop.

NBC4 asked local historians and neighbors if the flag memorial is a part of history or a sign of racism.

“I can accept it as history monument, but I can’t accept it flying over state property or any place my tax money goes to,” said Earl “Wimpy” Potts, a member of the Hilltop historical society.