Private James W. Wyatt
Major Cox's Battalion S.S., Company E 2nd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, due to transfer and reorganization of this Company in the summer of 1863, aka: Company K 9th Alabama Infantry Battalion, subsequently 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company K.

Wyatt died at Academy Hospital in Chattanooga on August 20, 1863.

The following day, Aug. 21, 1863, Rosecrans began shelling Chattanooga. This campaign lasted about two weeks with Bragg abandoning the city on Sept. 8, 1863.

Private Ruebin Aldridge of the same Company as Wyatt also died about this same time, probably also at Academy Hospital.

Where would these two hospital dead have been buried, and what would be the chances of the graves being marked during this two weeks of shelling and later Union occupation?

Did any records survive from the Academy Hospital at Chattanooga?

Wyatt and Aldridge are not listed among the Confederate Dead buried at Chattanooga from the lists on this website...

The Chattanooga Confederate Cemeteries
http://www.utc.edu/Academic/Communication/ConfCem/ConfederateCem.html

Many from his S.S. Battalion are listed on the "No State Given" list as members of Cox's Battalion S.S., but no death dates are provided.

Any information or opinions as to their final resting place would be very much appreciated.

Barry N. Wyatt
Montgomery, AL