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From: "Willie Walker" <>
Subject: FW: [AL-CEM] Civil War Soldiers Cemetery for Sale?????????
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:53:17 -0700

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> Subject: [AL-CEM] Cemetery for Sale?????????
>
>
> Please Help!
>
>
> Confederate Rest is FOR SALE by the American Legion Post 199 in
> Fairhope,
> Alabama. The property comprises between 2.5 to 4 acres of land located
> in the
>
> Lakewood Subdivision at Point Clear (near the Grand Hotel). Land in that
>
> subdivision, if any could be found, would sell in the neighborhood of
> $300,000-$500,000 per acre.
>
> Confederate Rest Cemetery was donated for the burial of Confederate
> soldiers
> by Colonel Ketchum, CSA in 1863. New evidence suggests approximately 575
>
> Confederates are buried in at least 3 long trenches "stacked like cord
> wood."
>
> Most died after being moved from Vicksburg to the Confederate Hospital
> located at
> Point Clear. There are supposedly 2 large burial plots containing the
> body
> parts of Confederate amputees.
>
> Confederate Rest has been maintained and honored by several groups since
>
> Colonel Ketchum's original donation in 1863. The Eastern Shore Memorial
> Society
> donated/sold it to the American Legion in the 1960s as they no longer
> could
> maintain it.
> ****************
> > EASTERN SHORE POST 199
> > AMERICAN LEGION
> June 2, 2006
> >
> >
> > Dear Smith;
> >
> > First, let me thank you for your interest in our Confederate Rest
> > Cemetery.
> > Also, we appreciate your kind words regarding our fallen Comrade, the
> > irreplaceable Claude Arnold, as well.
> >
> > As to a possible transfer or sale of the Cemetery property, that has
> been
> > properly addressed in accordance with established Legion protocols.
> > Serious
> > and bonafide offers will be considered based on their merits through
> Mr.
> > Larry Hipsch.
> >
> > We appreciate your efforts to date, and intend, for the mean time, to
> > allow
> > your group's continued use of the property for ceremonial purposes.
> (how
> generous)
> >
> > The final votes of both the Cemetery Committee and Post membership
> provide
> > for the sale of the Cemetery. The Post has no plans to donate, or sell
> for
> > a nominal fee, the property to anyone, nor can it, pursuant to our
> charter
> > and
> > bylaws.
> >
> > With Regards,
> >
> > Dick Schneider, Commander, Post 199
> > Jeff Jones, Chairman, Cemetery Committee
>
>
> If you are as appalled as I about this please give American Legion a
> call and
> please pass this post to others.
>
> David Allen
> >
> > >> Eastern Shore Post 199 is located at 700 S. Mobile Street in
> Fairhope
> >> and is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Mailing address: P.O. Box 473, Fairhope,
> AL
> >> 36532. Tel: 251/928-9132.
> >
>
>
>
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