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POWs who died in Indiana to get Tennessee "burial"
By Sue McClure, Staff Writer, Tennessean
SPRING HILL, Tenn. - Come Friday, Tim Morrison will load seven
half-gallon jars of dirt into his car and drive to Indiana so 38 Tennessee
Confederate soldiers who died in a prisoner of war camp in 1862
can be covered with some of their native soil. Morrison, a guide at the Civil
War-era Rippavilla mansion and commander of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans Camp No. 152 in Fayetteville, collected the soil form each of
the soldiers' home counties - Williamson, Giles, Marshall, Lincoln, Bedford,
Lawrence and Franklin.
The native ground will be used to honor the dead during a 1 p.m.
dedication ceremony Saturday in Greenbush Cemetery in Lafayette, Ind.,
where Morrison is the keynote speaker. The ceremony culminates more than
two years of diligent research by Morrison to identify the men who, after
their surrender at Fort Donelson, endured a grueling steamboat and rail
trip to Lafayette, but failed to survive their temporary confinement
there in a local meatpacking house. Until now, their graves have identified
them simply as "Unknown, C.S.A."
"These poor fellows had been fighting for three days out in the
snow and ice prior to the surrender of Feb. 16 of Fort Donelson,"
Morrison said. "The ones who wound up in Lafayette, they're all Southern
Middle
Tennessee boys, so being up there fighting in and around Kentucky, that
was pretty far north for them."
The massive surrender at Fort Donelson left the Union Army with
about 13,000 POWs and no facilities or procedures to handle them. The 38
Middle Tennesseans who died were buried in Greenbush Cemetery by the
townsfolk. On Saturday, 38 Civil War reenactors will stage a roll call
of honor, stepping forward as each name of the Confederate dead is read, and
saying, "Died honorably for my country."
A monument honoring the 38 also will be unveiled. Descendants of
the Confederate dead are encouraged to attend the ceremony.
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