It says that 231 men are buried there, but of course it's over 100 miles to the closest battle at Mansfield, Louisiana, so all or nearly all must be deaths due to sickness. That's way too many to have come from the ordnance facility, pharmaceutical lab, guards at Camp Ford after it became a POW camp, or the transportation depot, *IF* they had brought their ill men into town and they later died. Unfortunately, we have no list of names or units. It would be a great project to go through the records of all of the units encamped in Smith County that summer to see if a list might be reconstructed. Maybe I'll give it a try sometime.

Vicki Betts