Doyle:
I went to this cemetery a million years ago, and copied down the names and data from the stones. I certainly confess that I could have copied the unit down incorrectly, or perhaps the stone is in error. Americus was the tail end of the railroad running south from, I beliveve, Griffin, and is only a few miles south of Andersonville. The Confederates had a hospital there, wwhich took in not only soldiers from the Atlanta area, but also treated the guards from the prison. The vast number of burials in this little Confederate cemetery are guards, who succumbed to disease. I don't know if Haid, or Hard, was a guard, or, as was more likely, a patient in the hospital who had been sent there from Atlanta.

A visit to the cemetery is very depressing, because so many of the men are marked as 2 GA Reserves, 4 GA Reserves, etc. There must have been a very high mortality among the guards, who were either the very young or the very old. The Confederates were not able to properly provide for the guards, or the prisoners either.

Lee