Confederates At Gettysburg

[mhscogin]

Can someone give me any information where confederates who were left at gettysburg may be buried

 

[milhistbuff1]

ABT guide with resources at end.

 

[RedRover]

They were buried all over the place. Mr. Elliott's battlefield map shows the location of large collections of graves.

Elliott's map of the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Scale 1:9051. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 332 Shows breastworks and rifle pits, graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, "dead horses" reads and streets, relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, houses and names of residents. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also...

www.loc.gov

Of several thousand Confederate burials noted on and near the field, a proportion of the remains were later exhumed by Southern Memorial association agents and sent south. The balance are yet scattered about apparently.

From 1886...

The Veterans of the Nottaway Grays observed...

There were a handful initially confused as Union corpses, buried in the National Cemetery.

Confederates Buried by Mistake in the Gettysburg National Cemetery - Find a Grave Virtual Cemetery

A curated virtual cemetery.

www.findagrave.com

And even some Union remains were subsequently turned up...

So many Civil War soldiers were killed at Gettysburg that they were still finding remains to bury in 1996

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with a casualty list more than 40,000 long.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[mhscogin]

There is a cenotaph at a local church here in Franklin County Georgia. It is a memorial to John Ash. Believed to be the "Gettysburg sniper" I am bringing 35 kids to Gettysburg in the Spring. I would love to know where he is possibly buried, if so buried on the battlefield

 

[lupaglupa]

Finding an individual's grave is pretty difficult. Most of the bodies of the Confederate dead were buried soon after the battle at or near where they fell. Many were later moved but few of these men were identified. There is a section of the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia that holds a number of men from Gettysburg. It is believed that a number of bodies remain in the ground at Gettysburg.

@Tom Elmore do you know if this soldier, John Ash, was identified?

 

[mhscogin]

Finding an individual's grave is pretty difficult. Most of the bodies of the Confederate dead were buried soon after the battle at or near where they fell. Many were later moved but few of these men were identified. There is a section of the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia that holds a number of men from Gettysburg. It is believed that a number of bodies remain in the ground at Gettysburg.

@Tom Elmore do you know if this soldier, John Ash, was identified?

I dont. And he is really one of 3 soldiers believed to be the body of the one photographed at devils den. Picture was taken a couple of days after the battle. It was staged. More than likely he was killed by cannon fire during the retreat. His brothers body is buried next to his headstone, but he is only memorialized with that cenotaph. I m assuming he is at Gettysburg somewhere

 

[Tom Elmore]

I presume we are talking about Private John Rutherford Ash of Company A, 2nd Georgia. His burial location is not known.

 

[mhscogin]

There were several men named John Ash in the Confederate army. What was his regiment?

2nd Georgia

 

[Tom Elmore]

2nd Georgia

In 1888, the skeleton of a Confederate soldier was uncovered in the general vicinity, but we cannot be sure it was Private John R. Ash.

 

[mhscogin]

I presume we are talking about Private John Rutherford Ash of Company A, 2nd Georgia. His burial location is not known.

yes

 

[Saint Jude]

The only thing I know about that is that they couldn't be buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

 

[infomanpa]

The only thing I know about that is that they couldn't be buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

For that matter, I don't think any Union troops were buried in Evergreen Cemetery, either.

 

[mhscogin]

The tombstone in my picture is of my greatx4 grandfather, william scarboro. He was in the 15th GA. wounded between the wheatfield and devils den. Bennings brigade. captured and exchanged a year and half later

 

[Gettysburg Bullet]

Most of the Confederate dead taken from Gettysburg were sent to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.,
Charleston S. C., Savannah, Ga. And Raleigh N.C.

 

[firstflabn]

Greg Coco's Gettysyburg's Confederate Dead is the definitive work on the subject, in large part because of Greg's terrific research (the narrative is also deserving of praise). Hard to understand how it hasn't been mentioned already.

 

[Tom Elmore]

Greg Coco's Gettysyburg's Confederate Dead is the definitive work on the subject, in large part because of Greg's terrific research (the narrative is also deserving of praise). Hard to understand how it hasn't been mentioned already.

It has not been mentioned, but it was consulted. John R. Ash is not listed in Greg Coco's Gettysburg's Confederate Dead.

But I should have also checked Gettysburg's Confederate Dead, by Robert K. Krick and Chris L. Ferguson, and in their reference work, John Rutherford Ash is listed as being buried in Franklin, Georgia, at Hebron Presbyterian Church, of which we have been informed above is only a cenotaph and not an actual burial.

 

[mhscogin]

It has not been mentioned, but it was consulted. John R. Ash is not listed in Greg Coco's Gettysburg's Confederate Dead.

But I should have also checked Gettysburg's Confederate Dead, by Robert K. Krick and Chris L. Ferguson, and in their reference work, John Rutherford Ash is listed as being buried in Franklin, Georgia, at Hebron Presbyterian Church, of which we have been informed above is only a cenotaph and not an actual burial.

I wonder if maybe the cenotaph information is incorrect?That church is on private owned land but is also a historical site.

 

[firstflabn]

It has not been mentioned, but it was consulted. John R. Ash is not listed in Greg Coco's Gettysburg's Confederate Dead.

I was responding to the OP's first post where, as new to the question, he sought info on the broad subject.

At least Krick's first edition includes no individual burial info, so not useful for the OP's followup question.

 

[lelliott19]

It has not been mentioned, but it was consulted. John R. Ash is not listed in Greg Coco's Gettysburg's Confederate Dead.

But I should have also checked Gettysburg's Confederate Dead, by Robert K. Krick and Chris L. Ferguson, and in their reference work, John Rutherford Ash is listed as being buried in Franklin, Georgia, at Hebron Presbyterian Church, of which we have been informed above is only a cenotaph and not an actual burial.

I checked "Warren's List" of Georgians buried in and around the battlefield with identifiable headboards 1866. John R Ash is not included on the list. If Ash was actually the man photographed, his comrades wouldn't have buried him and marked his grave with a headboard. But I thought I'd check it just in case.

Weekly Georgia Telegraph. (Macon, GA), April 30, 1866, 8.