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From: dabf <>
Subject: [ALABAMA-L] Locating CSA dead in Point Clear, Ala.
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 13:36:42 -0600

Dear Fellow Researchers,

There has been recent success in locating the mass graves of
Confederate
Soldiers who died at the Grand Hotel Hospital in Point Clear, Baldwin
County, Alabama. Pepper Bryars, the son of one of Chapter's most active
members, recently wrote an article for the "Mobile Register" which
described recent activities which have been successful in locating the
actual grave sites in the Confederate Rest section of the Point Clear
Cemetery. Mr. Bryar's wrote:

Alex Smith and John Rather, two Civil War historians
in Baldwin County, used radar equipment in March to
scan the "Confederate Rest" section at Point Clear
Cemetery. They found evidence of three large trenches
they believe are the final resting places of about 150
Confederate soldiers, mostly Missourans injured during
the bloody Vicksburg, Miss., campaign in 1863.

Since the publication of this headline story in the Mobile
Register,
several additional soldiers have been identified. The entire article is
located at:

www.al.com/news/mobile/Jan1999/3-a200532a.html

Smith and Rather hope to dedicate CSA grave markers in August 1999
during
the National Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans which will be
held in nearby Mobile, Alabama.

Please alert your fellow Confederate descendants to this search so
that as
many soldiers as possible may have names on gravestone.

Your Obedient Servant,

D. A. Bass-Frazier

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to
do less." Robert E. Lee

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