Casper Carlisle Gravemarker

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

The deeds performed by Pvt. Casper Carlisle of Thompson's Battery on July 2, 1863 at the Peach Orchard are described at p. 165 of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard by Hessler and Isenberg. Under fire from Barksdale's troops, Carlisle cut four dead horses out the the harnesses of one guns limber and using the other two (one of which was fatally wounded) saved the gun from capture. Although recommended for the Medal by Thompson in his official report, Carlisle was not so honored until 1892, and only at the urging of his fellow GAR members. The authors also explained that Carlisle nevertheless died penniless in 1908 and was buried in a neglected and forgotten grave until a Civil War enthusiast provided a new headstone. If you check on Find-A-Grave, you will see a rather nice memorial on Carlisle's grave. Be all that as it may, why did he not have a proper military marker provided by the government as provided by the Act of Congress of February 3, 1889?

 

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Be all that as it may, why did he not have a proper military marker provided by the government as provided by the Act of Congress of February 3, 1889?

There is a Government pattern military marker at the grave of Mr. Carlisle, one of the flat ones... shown here on the Find-a-grave page...

Very common.