Mr. Pitts, You are so right about the markings on the graves in Hollywood Cemetery and I'm sure all cemeteries around that time. I just didn't think that he would die in a hospital and there not be more info on him about where his body was laid to rest. It probably was marked at that time but like you said, time and weather destroyed all the markings and rotted the wood. I've seen a lot of Confederate graves that had a iron CSA marker on it until I assumed his would have at least that. I'm not sure how many of our soldiers died during the Civil War but it seems like I read somewhere that more died during the CW then any other war.
I am not a Civil War historian by any means but I just wanted to find my great-grandfather. I'm sure there were others in his family who probably searched and came up against the same roadblock.
I appreciate your input and hope I didn't sound ungrateful to anyone about the info I received. It has pretty much given me reason to believe that he is in Hollywood Cemetery at least where I was not sure before which cemetery he was buried in. I will contact Hollywood Cem. and see if they might possibly have anything else on him. If not then I will probably never know exactly which grave is his.
I do thank you and Mr. Krosman for taking the time to look up information on the loved ones of other families. Although I never met my GGrandfather my research on my Wingard ancestors has made me feel like I knew him. I would love to be able to find him and link his wife and my grandfather Irvin to him. My grandfather was seven when he left and his brother was born that same year in 1861. It must have been so hard to raise two boys and take care of all the things around the farm that needed doing. There were so many families who had to survive after their husbands and sons left to fight.
My grandfather Irvin was a devout Christian man who didn't believe in owning slaves. He went by the Good Book and lived for the Lord and taught his seven sons and one daughter to do the same as did his father before him.
I am proud of DS Wingard's stand for the South and believe that all our Southern soldiers should be honored and our Confederate flag flown proudly in their honor and the sacrifices they made.

Linda Wingard Parrish