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Civil War American National Cemeteries
indeed,
the little tablets marking their resting places, measuring hardly ten inches in width, almost touched each other.
"United States soldiers, while prisoners at Andersonville, had been detailed to inter their companions, and by a simple stake at the head of each grave, which bore a number corresponding with a similar numbered name upon the Andersonville hospital record, I was enabled to identify and mark with a neat tablet, similar to those in the cemeteries at Washington, the number, name, rank, regiment, company, and date of death of twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-one graves, there being but four hundred and fifty-one that bore the sad inscription, 'Unknown U. S. Soldiers. '
" One hundred and twenty thousand feet of pine lumber were used in these tablets alone.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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