Hi Todd,

Thanks for posting that link. The marker for C.H. Johnston was placed in the Beech Grove Cemetery in about 1996. We made it a memorial marker (and placed it off by itself), because we don't know exactly where he was buried, just that he died in one of the hospitals in Beech Grove, of "inflammation of the brain." His service record says he died 3 May 1863, but family history says it was 3 April 1863 (which is what is on the marker). But he wasn't a battle casualty like the cemetery webpage says - he was simply in the hospital there when the Orphan Brigade was camped in that area following Murfreesboro.

Well, I suppose he *could* have died of the wound he suffered at Murfreesboro, but I think it was unlikely. He was listed on the rolls as absent sick, March-April 1863, so it looks like he died of some disease, probably on 3 May 1863.

The Beech Grove Cemetery is well worth a visit by anyone travelling on I-24 between Nashville and Chattanooga. You can even see it from the highway, on a hill nearby. The exit says Beechgrove (and another town - I don't recall which). There is now a nice historical marker there with maps, that explains the Tullahoma Campaign.

Geoff