Those soldiers buried at Soldiers Rest were marked with a wooden cross and a list of those buried were compiled by a union soldier.Over the years the crosses deteriorated and the names were lost.In 1983 the local UDC chapter began marking the graves using a partial surviving roster from the union soldier.Many had to be marked UNKNOWN.In 1997,Gordon Cotton and Jeff Giambrone,curators at the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg received a gift that contained some of the missing pages compiled by the union soldier.Of these 77 soldiers,71 were from Tennessee and 6 were from the 43rd.Tennessee:
Captain Sterling Turner.Pvts.James M Ballard,John N Barnett,John R Fleming,Jackson Mathis and Thomas B McAlton.
All 77 heretofore UNKNOWN soldiers were marked whith white marble stones in a very moving memorial ceremony on July 11,1998.
Mike