ME Wait, what?

[Jack7171]

Unknown location, but saw this on another site

 

[RedRover]

Somebody probably messed up in filling out the forms for the headstone from the VA.

Mr. Roscoe Arlington Howard, buried at the Lawndale Cemetery, Old Town, in Penobscot County, Maine, served with Company F, 2nd Regiment, National Guard of the State of Maine as a teenager, 1900-1901.
For whatever reason this was put on a Confederate headstone...

But it would appear he subsequently joined the US Army, and served overseas in the Philippine war.

At present, evidently, Mr. Howard's Headstone has been corrected to show his overseas service with the army.

 

[Jack7171]

Somebody probably messed up in filling out the forms for the headstone from the VA.

Mr. Roscoe Arlington Howard, buried at the Lawndale Cemetery, Old Town, in Penobscot County, Maine, served with Company F, 2nd Regiment, National Guard of the State of Maine as a teenager, 1900-1901.
For whatever reason this was put on a Confederate headstone...

View attachment 497647

But it would appear he subsequently joined the US Army, and served overseas in the Philippine war.

At present, evidently, Mr. Howard's Headstone has been corrected to show his overseas service with the army.

View attachment 497648

I figured SOMETHING was awry there! No way all of that could have been correct

 

[7thWisconsin]

Wow - that was a major administrative fail back in the 30s when they sent that first headstone! In the photo, it looks like it´s propped against a fence or porch siding. It´s certainly not at the gravesite, because there´s nothing around the grave in the second photo. I wonder if the family still has it as a curiosity.

 

[RedRover]

At present, when you fill out the forms for the headstones, it requires some copies of a military record, etc.