Kristy in SC
Ship Island Burials - AL. soldiers moved to Chalmette, LA.
Tue Apr 24 22:04:55 2001


FYI -

The following information was copied word for word from the US Civil War Center's Chalmette National Cemetery webpage
(http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/dbases/revchalmla.htm). Hope it's useful to some of you:

The cemetery was established in May of 1864 as a final resting place for Civil War dead, both Confederate and Union soldiers alike. Approximately 132 Confederate prisoners of war were buried at Chalmette until the Ladies' Benevolent Association of New Orleans requested that these soldiers be moved out of Chalmette, which is comprised entirely of Union soldiers, to the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. In the years following the war, the cemetery took in an additional 7,000 interments of Union soldiers moved from abandoned cemeteries located all over southern Louisiana, Ship Island, and Mississippi. Civil War burials at Chalmette number well over 12,000, but almost 7,000 are unknown.
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The Confederate Database (http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/dbases/chalm.la.csa.htm) holds the records for 130 of the 132 Confederate soldiers moved from Chalmette:
LAST FIRST MID DIED RANK BRANCH COMPANY REGIMENT COMMENTS

Allen Elijah J. 10/11/1864 I 21st
Allman A.J. 9/18/1864 Inf. A 1st
Allman N.E. 9/18/1864 Arty. A 1st Bn.
Borden Levi 9/14/1864 C 21st
Cade W.P. 9/23/1864 H 21st
Cargile John 10/03/1864 H 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Carlisle Henry T. 11/03/1864 H 21st
Chestnut James W. 6/20/1865 D 63rd
Deshazo Paul H. 10/05/1864 H 21st
Elliott Robert W. 11/04/1864 Sgt. K 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Faulk James E. 6/05/1865 D 63rd
Grant William 9/29/1864 G 21st
Grissett James G. 4/21/1865 D 63rd
Hargile J.H. 10/03/1864 H 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Herston James 5/26/1865 D 63rd
Holly J.D. 9/10/1864 G 21st
Howard James J. 10/06/1864 Inf. 1st (T.H. Clagett's Signal Corps,
Dept.of the Gulf, formerly
served in Co. F)
Johnston Charles R. 12/08/1864 Corp. K 62nd
Jones T.B. 10/15/1864 G 21st
Knight William 9/09/1864 E 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Lawrence A.J. 9/16/1864 Arty. F 1st. Bn.
Loftin M.H. 9/09/1864 F 21st
Lowery George W. 10/21/1864 H 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Massey Annanias 10/01/1864 H 62nd (Lockhart's Bn.)
Myers Lanson 5/16/1865 A 55th
Newsom William M. 9/11/1864 Corp. H 62nd
Norwood W.N. 10/30/1864 C 21st
Oats A. 4/29/1864 G 21st
Phillips George A. 5/21/1865 37th
Pippin Park 5/12/1865 D 63rd