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Re: Port Hudson Confederate Dead

Dave,

William N. Wilnslett does not appear among the marked graves at Vicksburg, but that does not mean that he is not buried there. Most of the Confederate dead buried at Cedar Hill are still unknown. Here is some info from the NPS.

Cedar Hill Cemetery at Vicksburg is the final resting place for an estimated 5,000 Confederate soldiers.

A local undertaker, Mr. J.Q. Arnold, was hired by the Confederate government to bury Southern soldiers and carried out those duties throughout the Siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Arnold meticulously maintained records of the soldiers he buried, assigning each one a grave number. Regrettably, his list and map of the cemetery disappeared after the siege.

However, a portion of his list was discovered in the early 1960s with the name, rank, company, unit, and date of death for 1,600 soldiers. Approximately 3,500 names are unknown. It was not until the early 1980s, following the discovery of the partial list, that headstones were erected through the combined effort of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Veterans' Administration. The stones are arranged with military precision and placed in state groupings.

In 1998, an additional 72 headstones were erected by the UDC and Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor soldiers whose identities were established on the second list which surfaced in the collection of the Old Court House Museum.

Send me your email address through this message board's "Send E-Mail" link, and I'll send you an image of J. Winslett's marker at Macon, GA.

Barry

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