Well, my friend and I were hoping to have his name added to the list of the known dead. Discovering one after so long is just unheard of.
As far as placing a marker, I have no idea of that.
We were just thrilled to find out the name of one of the unknown.
I guess I was excited about this since I had one--Lt Fielding Price--who was in an unmarked grave somewhere around Little Rock. His descendents who are history nuts like me would just like to know for sure where.
Yours died a free man and mine was locked up and died because of the filth he was kept in at that Yankee Prison. But the circumstances would have been the same, the health authorities would not have allowed them to be moved.
Just last summer I was able to send a photo of the probable burial site of an Union soldier to one of his descendents. He was stationed just about a mile east of our town. She knew where he was when he died and it was common knowledge where the Union buried their dead. He had never shown up on a Union site, so we believe those guys were left down here in the ground where they were buried. Also, some aerial photos indicated that there were still some grave sites there is what I was told.
About six years back, I was able to establish the probable place that a CSA Missouri man had fallen in battle on their way to Little Rock in August of 1863. Those men were buried where they fell and we knew it. It was very easy to understand since I knew the area. It had always been unknown to the family and it had been a concern of theirs for years. That piece of information was greatly appreciated by his great grandson who was then dying with cancer.
I was able to secure a photo of the lost CSA man.
That photo was as if he was looking across time with those pale blue eyes of his. His own wife and children never knew, and his descendents
still wanted to know the truth. It turned out well.
We knew for sure that the CSA Missouri man had been at the Battle of Brownsville and that he fell just down the road in battle. Brownsville is still there, but in name only just north of where I live. It would have been one of the places Wyatt knew about and perhaps visited.
So please feel free to respond. This is quite interesting to me as you can surely tell.
Thanks a bunch.
Linda T. Acrey
Lonoke, Arkansas