His obit says they furnished him a stone, but it isn't a standard military stone. Some members probably just bought one, maybe out of their own pockets.
The Alliance Cemetery records say he was a Confederate soldier, but I find no records that he was in any military.
He was not only in Johnson Co., MO throughout the war, he was on the "Disloyal list" and had to post bond.
He was quite a con man. He was a land speculator in Johnson and Cass.
He applied for and received bounty land as a Mexican War soldier, then subdivided it and sold it.
Then he tried for a pension and was turned down. That time, they said he was a civilian contractor, not a soldier.
I have his records. He went to Leavenworth and contracted with the Quartermaster Dept, to drive a wagon load of supplies to Santa Fe and drive the empty wagon back.
He may have talked those GAR guys in Nebraska into anything.
By the way. those Alliance cemetery records are very incomplete. I have obits for several other relatives who were buried there, including Martin's wife who was buried next to him, and they have no record of them.
Jim