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Re: Texas men buried in Shady Grove Cem. at Iuka..

I was truly honored to be invited to Iuka, Miss., for several events marking the 140th anniversary of the battle there, and by a family I'd never met before in order to place an individual grave marker at the mass grave. It was my first and only trip there and the local folks made me feel like a genuine VIP for making the trip (... was even presented a nice certificate from the mayor as a descendant of a battle participant in the name of my great grandfather, Pvt John M Culpepper, of the 37th Alabama).

Most of the battlefield at Iuka had been developed in the ensuing years; I actually stayed in a small motel that sits practically upon the very site of the heaviest fighting. But Shady Grove Cemetery with its mass Confederate grave is very well maintained. There's a lovely park in the downtown area -- and many homes date to the war, or shortly thereafter.

The National Parks Service has a beautifully done Civil War Interpretive Center just down the road at Corinth. It's positioned at the site of Battery Robinett (which has been reconstructed onsite). Also, the nearby site of the embattled Hatchie (Davis) Bridge is quite a bit harder to locate, and even harder to get to, but well worth the effort.

It's my sincere hope that the work that's been collected to identify those Confederate soldiers killed at Iuka, who are undoubtedly buried en masse at Shady Grove, will find its way to some sort of permanent marker at the grave site. A lot of interested people put a lot of scholarly work into it, and it's now (thankfully) in the right hands over in Mississippi to (hopefully) make something happen.

I, too, would love to make another trip to Iuka to mark the Sesquicentennial. I'd sure like to take that opportunity to shake Bill Nolan's hand for his help in compiling the names, and Kenneth Byrd's, too, for his thoughtfulness, help and support. AND, if their past efforts are prologue, then the good residents of Iuka will certainly make ANY and ALL of their visitors feel very welcome there.

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