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If he was last known to be in a Field Hospital, I'd hazard a quess that he was brought back with the Confederate troops inside the Vicksburg siege lines.

Some 3000 Confederate soldiers were buried in the Confederate Rest section of the Cedar Hill, Vicksburg City Cemetery. These men were buried in individual graves and cyprus head markers placed. Unfortunately, the original list of these men were lost and original markers lost.

Of that total, only 2000 names are known through an old UDC list.

In 1997, Jeff Giambrone of the Old Court Museum found a list of some additional 77 East Tennessee soldiers who were buried in Cedar Hill. We obtained tombstones for these men and placed them in July 1998.

Gary W. Webster, produced a list of Confederate burials entitled "Confederate Roll of Honor, Known Confederate Dead, Vicksburg Campaign, January 1862-July 1863," "Ole Sow" Publications, Vicksburg, 1998. Lt. Brotherton's name does not appear.

You might contact Gary, call the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg and contact the Vicksburg National Military Park Historian, Terrence (Terry) Winschel. They may have more up to date information.

George Martin

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