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Re: William Anderson Leatherwood

Sybil --

Since the Confederate government didn't provide transportation for shipment of bodies, very few were taken home by families. If you could establish the location of the hospital, probably from contemporary newspaper accounts, burials always were made a short distance away from the hospital. It's doubtful that many of them received markers more substantial than a simple wooden slat. We have pictures of Hollywood Cemtery made shortly after the Yankees occupied Richmond, and that's all that can be seen. So even if you knew for sure where a burial took place, you would never have a marker with the soldier's name on it.

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