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I don't understand what the OP is supposed to elicit from CWT readers. Is the intent to spark productive debate about if Confederate soldiers should be buried there? Is the intent simply to inform readers that Confederate soldiers are buried there? Or, is the intent to drive home the point that the Confederate soldiers who are buried there are offspring of men who "endorsed" slavery? I don't think it's possible to derive the intent of the researcher because we are only seeing a small piece of his total work. As for the OP, I derived the latter.
Nicely put, @Eleanor Rose.
I too like a few other people was intrigued by the title of the thread, and even the OP info about the specific Confederate soldiers @cash listed--until it came to the end of each about the enslaved humans each man or his father was responsible for. I think it's really interesting to note that there are Confederates buried in the National Cemetery erroneously, and their stories fascinate me, as it seems they do for others who tried to get this thread back on that track.
But the OP feels like bait-and-switch to me. If one of my 8th graders would have done that, especially with the inflammatory topic, they would receive a stern talking to and guidance on how to properly address this sort of thing, because they are 14 and inexperienced writers. I suspect @cash knows this already.
C'mon, what's your real point, Al?