Hi, George -- Thanks for your two postings concerning the 28th/29 Louisiana.

My source for the A. Hoy presence is Walter and Annie Salassi's Cedar Hills Cemetery, The City Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss., 1985. (Cedar Hills and City are the same cemetery -- just different names.)

The Salassis recorded every grave marker and its contents. (Except the new CSA markers you installed at Soldiers Rest.) A Hoy is listed here in the Salassi listing with a number of other contemporary CSA grave markers.

Hoy's grave marker, according to Salassis, gives only the death date, 24 DEC 1862.

Hoy appears to have been buried by his friends as no funeral home record is listed. There are about 25 other CSA burials with him. Of them, only five were funeral home burials (Ragland's Fisher Funeral Home Records.)

The ground has been probed to see if the marker broke off and was accidentally buried or lost in nearby undergrowth.

It would be awful if this were the last sign of this soldier's service and now it is lost.

I had hoped someone with access to different books or records might find his name.

When the Soldiers Rest web site is back online, I will direct you to the photo where these markers are in Soldiers Rest.

On another topic, you mentioned a group of burials under the Magnolia tree. If you took a picture of them, we would like to see it, as another burial is there with a broken stone.

TIA.

Thanks, again.