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Re: burial site for Henry WALBRIDGE

There is a Confederate cemetery there. I am only assuming that this man
was CSA.
Many people expect to find all these folks in nice neat cemeteries with
grave markers like we have today. The CSA soldiers did well to get covered
and have something that looked like a marker. Most are buried under
CSA Unkown.
If this was a Union group, then try Memphis, but the possiblity I would say of
any Union soldier actually being moved to Memphis and having a grave marked
with his name on it is also slim. Identification was easily lost.
I know that I have been very direct about this, but please understand I am not
trying to be rude to you. There is always an outside chance that a marked grave
may exist. Most of the remains of the Union soldiers that were
buried in the Brownsville-Hicks Station area, did make it to Little Rock to what is
the National Cemetery after the war, but several names got lost along the way.
I know because I tried to track them several years back.
About two weeks ago, we found my late father-in-law's great grandfather, a
CSA soldier in a marked grave in Savannah, Georgia. Of course he had died
in a Union hospital. The name was not 100 % correct, but was close.
I would have bet money that it would have never happened.

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