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5th MS soldier located at Chase Cemetery

The Confederate tombstone Grave number 2123 at the Camp Chase Cemetery reads: 1st Lieut. P.S. Carter Company I 3rd Miss. CSA. According to his CMSR's this soldier was Private Pleasant L.G. Carter of Company I 5 Mississippi Infantry. He was shot and left on the field at 7:00 am on April 7, 1862. Some of the wounded Confederates at Shiloh would be taken by boat to the Camp Dennison Hospital near Cincinnati, Ohio as was the case with Private Carter. He would die the same day he was admitted to the Dennison Hospital on April 20, 1862. His body would be reinterred by Captain Irving of the Quartermasters Department and taken to the Chase Cemetery in May of 1869. The stone that people view today was laid in the spring of 1908 and taken from the information from the 1907 Register. All told 31 Confederates were removed from the Dennison area and moved to the Chase Cemetery. All 31 died of wounds received at Shiloh and the majority of them have errors on their stones today. It would appear that Pleasant Carter lived in Kemper County Mississippi prior to the War according to census records. He was only about 20 years of age when he died.