Sharon:

For your information, I posted the following response to a query about the Confederate dead in Union City, Tennessee on the Mississippi CWMB. You might want to contact Mr. Forrester directly. I think he had some information on the Union dead as well. Some Union unknowns may have been buried in the mass grave with the Confederates as I recall.

Hugh

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Posted By: Hugh Simmons
Date: Wednesday, 22 January 2003, at 8:25 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Partial list of Miss. Soldiers Laid to Rest in (John Gillespie)

Confederate forces gathered at Union City [a railroad junction on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad] in August and September of 1861 and marched into Columbus, Kentucky some 20 miles away on September 4, 1861. Columbus provided a strategic position overlooking the Mississippi River. Belmont, Missouri was located directly across the river. Confederate forces occupied Columbus from September 4, 1861 until March 1, 1862. Union City served as a rear area hospital location until the evacuation of Columbus.

Scattered Civil War burials around Union City were disinterred after the war and reburied in a mass grave. A monument to these Unknown Confederate Dead was erected in 1869. Mr. R. C. Forrester, Obion County Historian in Union City, gave me this information in April 1998 and has a photo of the monument in his book "Glory and Tears: Obion County Tennessee, 1860-1870" (A Forrester/Wood Publication, Second Edition, 1990).

Mr. R. C. Forrester
Obion County Historian
P. O. Box 336
Union City, Tennessee 38281