Thanks George,
I made a quote of that too, under your name in his file, using almost your exact quote anyway. Changed it a little to hopefully explain in as few a words as possible. Nobody probably real cares about his exact birthday anyway but will explain it anyway for the families sake if they ever come along and see all of this in his file online.

I found a site about the town of Lagrange only four miles from Grand Junction with this statement in it.

"""" Over one-hundred and fifty Confederate soldiers now lay buried in a mass grave in the small cemetery. """
http://www.lagrangetn.com/chronology.htm

I can't find anything else, so far, online about any of this mass burial but interesting that there was over 150 in a mass grave and maybe just disappeared, forgotten about.
I'd like to think they were all exhumed later on and removed to a real and proper cemetery. I'm retired with plenty of time so might just keep piddling and digging away online and see what I can find out about it. There has to be a logical explanation about it all that I don't see yet.