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Re: CSA Gravesites needing Gaurdians around Charle

To my knowledge there is not a Confederate cemetery or significant Confederate section anywhere in the Pee Dee. The two closest are the large Confederate section at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston and the much smaller Confederate section in Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia.

If he died in a hospital "near the Pee Dee Bridge," that would narrow down the place of death to near Mars Bluff or to Cheraw, the only two locations in South Carolina where the Pee Dee was spanned by a bridge during the war. Given the fact that these were rear areas at the time and not inundated with a large number of men dying in those hospitals, he probably would have either been taken to the closest cemetery to the place of death, or else his body would have been shipped home, either mediately or immediately.

If Cheraw was the place of death, and he was buried there, my guess would be a burial in the Episcopal Churchyard there. If on the other hand he died near Mars Bluff, I suspect the hospital would actually have been in Florence, the nearest town of consequence, and Mount Hope Cemetery would be an educated guess.

So many of the men were buried without a marker, or only a wooden slab, and records for those are virtually non-existant.

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