I am searching for the cemetery where Abraham M. Stephens was buried. He died in a Union hospital in Pulaski TN from the measles on 22 Feb 1865. He was born in 1832. The hospital staff had vacated for some reason a few days before his death. Any tips on where to search would be much appreciated. Thank you Steve Yemm -
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Welcome, he enlisted and mustered into Company I, 47th Missouri Infantry on 9/1/1864. Have no idea about his burial place, but here's a brief history of his unit.
Forty-seventh Infantry
MISSOURI
(6 MONTHS)
Forty-seventh Infantry. -- Cols., Thomas C. Fletcher, Amos W.
Maupin, Lieut.- Cols., Amos W. Maupin, John W. Fletcher, Maj.,
John W. Emerson.
In Aug., 1864, Gen. Rosecrans authorized Col. Fletcher to
organize a regiment in southeast Missouri, for service in that
part of the state. Through the efforts of Fletcher and his
assistants more men were recruited than was necessary for the
completion of the 47th, and the surplus was turned over to the
50th Mo. infantry. The regiment was mustered in for six
months, and until Dec. 12 was on duty in the state.
It was then ordered to Nashville, Tenn., where it arrived
three days after the Confederates under Gen. Hood had been so
ingloriously defeated. It remained on duty at Columbia,
Spring Hill and Pulaski, Tenn., until the latter part of
March, 1865, when it was ordered to St. Louis, where it was
mustered out on the 29th and 30th of that month.
During its service in Tennessee it was under command of Col.
Maupin, Fletcher having been elected governor of the state in
the fall of 1864.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 271
Colonel Thomas Fletcher.