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From: "Kevin Frye" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Union in Confedeate Cemeteries?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:21:24 -0400 (EDT)
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There were / are no rules against Confederates in National cemeteries.
Finns Point for example has a great many Confederate prisoners who died at
Fort Delaware comes to mind. There is also one reinterment of a
Confederate soldier here at Andersonville who was brought here back in
1995.

Kevin Frye
Andersonville Historian / NPS Volunteer
www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/



> There are a number of national cemeteries with both Union and Confederate
> dead buried.
>
> Keokuk, Iowa, has one with mostly Union, but five or so Confederates -
> buried right next to each other in line with the rest.
>
> Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, same thing. Down at Fort Scott, Kansas, there
> are about 12 or so Confederates buried off to the right as you enter - not
> in the same rows as Union.
>
> You have the Confederate cemetery (and monument) in Arlington National
> Cemetery.
>
> I am sure there are more.
>
>
> Dann Hayes
> Commander
> Sgt. N. F. Bates Camp No. 64
> Department of Iowa
>
>
>

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