On October 24 2014 Robert Edwards and Bob Wise, members of the David O. Dodd Camp 619 SCV Benton AR erected a tombstone over the grave of CPT Richard Powell Hammond, Co B (Saline County) 25th Arkansas Infantry who was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, TN on 12-31-1862. A letter on the Stones River NPS site detailed the burial of Hammond along with CPT John D. Thomas of Company C (Prairie County)wrapped in same blanket, and buried in same grave in a small family cemetery (Overall-McCulloch) there just off the battlefield. I contacted a local archaeologist with hopes of exhuming and returning these two back to Arkansas since the cemetery had seen hard times and was vandalized in the past. He went and located the actual grave of the two and had his local boy scouts clean it up etc as a project. The family of Thomas was located and contacted but they wanted nothing to do with returning them to Arkansas...(They all live elsewhere (TN and MS). The Dodd Camp with the assistance of Hammond's Gr Grandson, 98 yr old Joseph C. Hammond III of Roswell NM, ordered a VA tombstone. Robert Edwards and Bob Wise placed it while attending the dedication of the Arkansas Monument at Winstead Hill on the 25th of Oct. For more information a memorial has been posted on Find A Grave for Hammond. Hammond was also a Mexican War veteran serving in the 1st Arkansas Mounted Vols under COL Yell and served in Saline Co Company I along with many other future CSA soldiers and officers (namely COL Wm A. Crawford). Long overdue, his final resting place is now marked.