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Rick, the men who died in various camps and hospitals in the vicinity of Pocahontas were buried very near the places they died, but I don't know that anyone has pinpointed any specific burial places. The graves would have been marked with wooden markers, long since deteriorated.

While there were a few instances where families claimed the bodies of their soldiers for interment back home, this was extremely rare. The Confederate Army did not have a survivor notification system. The best they managed to do was to occasionally post a casualty list in the newspaper, usually following a major battle.

Most families were notified of a death informally, by members of the deceased soldier's regiment, sometimes by letter, usually directly by a man on furlough back home. In any case, by the time the family found out, the soldier had been dead and buried for some time. A few, usually prominent individuals, were reinterred after the war, but the overwhelming majority of the Confederate dead lay where they were interred, and sadly most of them rest in anonymous graves, "known but to God".

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