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Re: VETERAN SEARCH - burial location

The CMR of this soldier may state where he died, but I would not expect it to include burial information.

Dunbar Rowland's history of these sixty-day troops mentions that they

had no opportunity for hostilities, but suffered intensely from the very severe winter. Snow lay on the ground for weeks and the men were unaccustomed and unprepared for such exposure. Most of them came down with measles and many died from this serious camp disease and pneumonia. The regiments were disbanded at the expiration of the term of enlistment....

Enlistments ran from mid-December 1861 through mid-February 1862.

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