"Stan,
I have "cc'd" this letter to my camp Commander and 1st Lt. Both being instrumental in the activities relating to Oakwood Cemetery. Darryl (Commander), Stan Boring is a Georgia brother with a recently discovered great grandfather buried at Oakwood. Lemuel H. Boring was with Co. A, 18th Georgia Infantry. According to Chris Ferguson he was interred on 1 May 1862. His name appears in the 1862 burial ledger on page 28, line 67. His grave is in Range AJ, Lot 50. I told Stan about the ceremony that we performed for David McDonald a few weeks ago and he is very interested in seeing that his ancestor's grave is marked properly. With your own Georgia lineage and recently acquired retired status I thought you would have some time to help Stan with the process of obtaining a stone and coordinating whatever type of ceremony that he desires. Stan was delighted in the fact that we had a bagpiper "on call". (Tim Batten, Pipe Major, Saint Andrew's Legion Pipe and Drums) Of course, Smith's Battery would be honored to participate. You gentlemen work out the details and keep me in the thread. Stan, I hope we can help you with this. It is our duty to see that these men get the recognition that they never received. Don't hesitate to contact me or the above mentioned gentlemen Darryl Starnes, Commander and Grayson Jennings, 1st Lt Commander, Edmund Ruffin Camp, SCV.
Keith Saunders
2nd Lt. Commander - Public Relations
Edmund Ruffin Fire Eaters, Camp 3000
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Mechanicsville, VA
As it happens, Darryl Starnes is the great grandson of Gen. Wm. T. Wofford, who formed the 18th. Ga. At the time of Pvt. Boring's death at Seven Pines, the 18th Ga. was part of the Texas Brigade, which was commanded by Wofford at Antietam, when my two great uncles, Alexander and Francis, Lemuel's brothers who survived the war, fought in the Corn Field.
In November 1862, the 18th was transferred to Cobb's Brigade, and fought at the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg, where Cobb was killed. Wofford was promoted to Brigadier and thereafter it was Wofford's Brigade.
With the MOA between SCV and Rischmond, it appears stone markers will no longer be placed individually, but in groups. I suppose any ceremony would necessarily be after the stone was placed. Would you put me in touch with the Oakwood staff, so that I may be notified when Lemuel Boring has a marker? They have all the information for a stone except his birthdate, which I have somewhere. I'll post this as a reply to your post. Stan