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From: "Betty Jane Cooper" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Looking for grave of Civil War ancestor
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:18:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <455632.6647.qm@web58815.mail.re1.yahoo.com>


No Houston in Vol. 5 Betty

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
On Behalf Of Lauren Brantner
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:17 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Looking for grave of Civil War ancestor

Connie,
I checked Vol. VII [also II and III] for you and there is not a Houston in
the volumes - hopefully others on the list will check the other volumes.
Hopefully something will turn up for you. I would also check neighboring
counties.

Lauren Brantner

Connie Shotts1 <> wrote: Shelby and Lauren, I have
much the same problem as does Shelby. I know that my gg-grandfather Lewis
Houston was wounded at the Battle of Antietam and died Oct 4 from those
wounds. His Civil War records say he died "near Sharpsburg", but I have not
been able to locate a burial location for him either. He does not appear in
the Antietam National Cemetery records and I know that he his body was not
sent back to Indiana for burial. There was something in a pension file that
suggested that he was buried near Harper's Ferry, but that is not in his CW
file -- it clearly states that his death occurred near Sharpsburg.
If anyone can help locate his grave, I too would be most appreciative.
Thanks,
Connie

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
On Behalf Of Lauren Brantner
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:06 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Looking for grave of Civil War ancestor

Give us a name and someone on the list will search the cemetery books that
were published for Washington County.

Lauren Brantner

Shelby Williams wrote: My ancestor died at a field hospital as a result of
wounds suffered at the Battle of Antietam.
His name is not listed as a casualty by the National Parks Department, and I
am sure that his body was not sent home. There is of course the possibility
that he was buried in a mass grave however, we have a letter from a good
friend of his who visited him at the field hospital prior to his death. So
his name was known....

My question is: are there cemeteries outside of the national battlefield
where my ancestor may be buried?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Shelby

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