I think it is great that you got him a head stone. I assume you got it from the VA. I am about to try and get my GG Grandfather a new stone as his is broken. He actually made it out of the war and made it back home. He was captured at Spotsylvania and sent to Fort Delaware as a POW. Thanks For you story it will help as I hope to write a good history of the men of the 17th some day.