Thank you Bill. You and Dr. Dye's journal have been my primary source of information. Princeton Cemetery is less than half a mile from the old hospital and must surely be the resting place of the soldiers who died in the hospital (one yankee soldier notwithstanding), be it two or twenty. I really do not believe that it was practical to transport bodies long distances in the warm months of 1864.
With no family nearby, I suppose a cedar tree monument was a very thoughful gesture at the time. Sgt. Durdin will get a granite marker now.
Here is the story of a Union soldier who died at Princeton Hospital on the same day as Wm. James Durdin. He was buried in the federal cemetery in Little Rock.