Shermanwasaterrorist
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- Nov 2, 2016
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- The Great State of GEORGIA!
I'm sure many posts exist throughout this vast site but, I'm old and impatient. I've always been curious to fascinated regarding the casualties of the soldiers of both sides and particularly the Rebels. I would like to know more of the reburials of the Confederate dead. I've copied a sentence from an article that follows
"The Confederate dead remained buried until the 1870s-1880s when they were disinterred and taken to the Confederate Cemetery named Hollywood, which was located in Richmond, Va."
The above statement from a Gettysburg resident regarding 50 Confederates that were removed from his family's farm sort of is the basis of my inquiry.
1. Were their "commercial" companies or specific businesses that performed the reburials?
2. Any documentation, i.e. advertising, photos, for lack of a better word "inventory or bill of ladings"?
3. Were the soldiers being re-interred identified for the most part and being relocated solely from their families? or, like the case of the Gettysburg family mentioned above, due to reclamation or acquisition of land removed to farm?
4. Re-internment being a grisly task and sometimes including 50 or more soldiers what kind of pay or fee would this take?
Any information is helpful and feel free to add to the post as you see fit concerning this fascinating aspect of the war.
"The Confederate dead remained buried until the 1870s-1880s when they were disinterred and taken to the Confederate Cemetery named Hollywood, which was located in Richmond, Va."
The above statement from a Gettysburg resident regarding 50 Confederates that were removed from his family's farm sort of is the basis of my inquiry.
1. Were their "commercial" companies or specific businesses that performed the reburials?
2. Any documentation, i.e. advertising, photos, for lack of a better word "inventory or bill of ladings"?
3. Were the soldiers being re-interred identified for the most part and being relocated solely from their families? or, like the case of the Gettysburg family mentioned above, due to reclamation or acquisition of land removed to farm?
4. Re-internment being a grisly task and sometimes including 50 or more soldiers what kind of pay or fee would this take?
Any information is helpful and feel free to add to the post as you see fit concerning this fascinating aspect of the war.