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Re: No Confederates Allowed
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George --

Sorry to be so confusing. Check Skip's recent post about the two Louisiana Confederates and the failed attempt to have them buried in Shiloh National Cemetery. Skip illustrates the point much better than I did.

Forgive me please, but NOBODY here tried to say there were no Confederate burials in national cemeteries.

Here's one good reason to belabor the point --
I'm sure you'll agree that when someone posts the question again the near future, it's always helpful to provide useful information. Unless their Confederate ancestor died in Federal captivity during the war, searching for him in a national cemetery will be a waste of their time and effort. We also need to be able to explain WHY it's a waste of their time and effort.

The book mentioned earlier --

John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation, University of Kansas Press, 2005. The story about the remains of two Confederates found at Gettysburg appears on pages 235-237. They were discovered in 1933, but not until the matter came to the attention of Alabama Senator Hugo Black were the Confederates given a proper burial -- elsewhere.

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