The South Carolina in the Civil War Message Board

SUMMERVILLE GENERAL HOSPITALS/UDC CEMETERY

I am looking for descendants of patients who were transfered from Wayside Hospital in Charleston, SC to Summerville General Hospitals and died there may be buried in this cemetery. We have pin-pointed the area the cemetery may be in but I am hoping to contact any descendants of these soldiers whose remains may have not been shipped home. Since this cemetery is supposeably near the old rail line it may have been easy to ship the remains home but we have a UDC document which states that the UDC C. Irvine Walker Chapter # 190 decorated the graves of 32 Confederate soldiers in what was named by them as Oak Grove Cemetery. This cemetery area may be on land now owned by Westvaco and a person from the Ridgeville area. We have asked permission from the "private owner" to scrape the land and this patient register will be a major help in this project. ANYONE with any information on the "Hospital Tract" or the UDC cemetery in Summerville, please contact me at BamaAnn23@sc.rr.com or BamaAnn23@aol.com, any information may lead us to the 10 acres that was once the cemetery. units from Georgia served in this area and I am posting on this board just in case someones' ancestor records has info on the hospitals or cemetery. Thank you, Ann Harmon President C. Irvine Walker Chapter # 190 Summerville, SC