samuel orris
Sergeant
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Elizabethtown, PA
Will be leaving for our trip to Texas soon. On the way we'll stop at Murfreesboro, TN and visit the battlefield there. The highlight of the trip will be coming home from San Antonio (actually Converse) when we stop to tour the battlefield at Mansfield, LA where my ancestor, Samuel Orris Shoemaker, was captured and taken to Camp Ford, Tyler, TX. He was inexplicably shot by a Confederate guard there while leading a chapel service.
I discovered his remains are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Pineville, LA where we will stop and hopefully see his grave marker. I found out which site is his and I just pray that he is buried alone and not in a mass grave which I understand is how many Union soldiers are interred there. I want to photograph a marker with his name on it, not one that says, "UNKNOWN." Know what I mean?
Photos will be forthcoming.
I discovered his remains are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Pineville, LA where we will stop and hopefully see his grave marker. I found out which site is his and I just pray that he is buried alone and not in a mass grave which I understand is how many Union soldiers are interred there. I want to photograph a marker with his name on it, not one that says, "UNKNOWN." Know what I mean?
Photos will be forthcoming.