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Re: 9 Civil War Dead in Wellsville, Montgomery, MO

Carl,
Senior nap or not, we would hope the contractors fulfilled their obligation and did their duty.

However, I am reminded of a "St. Louis Globe Democrat" newspaper expose from about the 1980's. The researchers revealed that the contractors who took the money to dig up all the dead Confederate POW's and other smallpox victims near the smallpox hospital on the island in the Mississippi River near Alton, IL and the military prison there took money under false pretenses without fulfilling their end of the deal. For years thereafter, the article told, whenever a big flood would sweep down that mighty river, it would expose lots of bones and skeletons, and people boating by the little island were greeted by the macabre sight of human skulls and other bones high in the the trees and in some cases branches and roots growing through skulls and what not. Evidently, the cheaters did not simply miss a few, but a large number, and maybe they didn't move any of the remains at all. It was a disgrace. It reminds me that a contract is only as good as its specifications and a means to enforce its execution.

Bruce

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