You should look for his name in the nearest National Cemetery. Immediately following the war, Northern commissioners visited various camp grounds and battlefields to collect bodies of Federal soldiers. These were identified whenever possible, but always removed to a National Cemetery.

This is the same process used in Europe following the end of World War II. American dead were removed to National Cemeteries in France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain. Regarding the Southern states as conquered provinces, Northern commissioners understood that Federal dead buried there needed to be located, exhumed and reburied in protected cemeteries.