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I know this topic has been discussed in CivilWarTalk but I don't recall seeing a thread devoted to the topic. Here's mine with an experience/example that got me to thinking about it. This past Saturday,I made a daytrip to Waco to visit my son and grandson. It's a little shy of 3.5 hours from where I live. I am a very early riser and my son is not. I decided on Friday that I was gonna leave very early on Saturday morning and find a cemetery closeby to visit before I got to my son's place. I poked around on FindAGrave Friday night and found Concord Cemetery in eastern McLennan County. It's in a rural area outside the eastern city limits of Waco. I started scrolling through the burials there and came across the soldier whose picture is above, William H. Barker. I stopped scrolling through the names right then. That was good enough for me. I left at 6am on Saturday morning. The cemetery was not easy to find. It's not that big and it only took about 30 minutes to walk it pretty thoroughly. I found the gravesite above,put a flag on it and took a couple pictures and paid my respects. I didn't find any other Civil War veterans there. There were already some US flags at other veterans' gravesites. I found one WW1 veteran from Texas who didn't have a flag and I put a US flag on his grave.