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Confederate camp at Rondo

I just learned from an article in the May 2012 issue of UDC Magazine that there are approximately 85 Confederate soldiers buried in Rondo Cemetery, who died of a measles outbreak which occurred in the town of Rondo and spread to the Confederate camp there in 1862. For years I have been trying to learn more about a story that my grandmother told me about two of her uncles who enlisted in the Confederate army (lived in Nevada County) but "died of measles before they ever made it to a battle." After reading this article, I suspect they were at Rondo at this time. Does anyone know what Arkansas units might have been there in 1862? The names of my grandmother's uncles were William and Wiley Malone on the 1860 census, and they would have been approximately 17 years old in 1862.

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