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Re: Austin, Arkansas 1862 burials

Looked at some rock marked unknown graves today at Austin, they are not in any known cemetery. Rumor says they may Union or Confederate. The Confederate soldiers buried at Austin, Arkansas in 1862-63 would not have been moved during the war and the reburial party of 1905 at Camp Nelson didn't go up to Austin and move any of the graves up there, down to the new Camp Nelson Cemetery of 1906. The soldiers reburied in the 1906 Camp Nelson Cemetery came from the Camp Nelson area. The soldiers buried at Austin, Arkansas a few miles from Camp Nelson should still be buried at Austin, but where, in the old cemetery or around the edge of town. Austin is being developed more and more each day, with plans for 90 new homes in the near future. I'm looking for sources like letters, journals or records saying to the effect ("five soldiers died in the Austin hospital today and we buried then near the hospital" or wherever). Just trying to document these grave sites before it to late.

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