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From: "Desoto Joe" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Re: MO-CW-D Digest V01 #20
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:12:42 -0600
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From: Virginia Welding <>
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Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: [MO-CW] Re: MO-CW-D Digest V01 #20


> I have been told that my ancestor Wilkins Newton was taken captive and
> died in a union prison camp near Springfield Mo. Is there any way to
> document this? Thanks. His home was in Madison co. Ark.
>
>


National Cemetery
The National Cemetery is at the southwest corner of
Glenstone and Seminole. Begun as a
burial place for men who died in the Battle of Wilson's
Creek, august 10, 1861, and other
battles in Southwest Missouri, the cemetery now includes
14 acres. In 1870, on a four acre
site separated from the National Cemetery by a stonewall,
a Confederate Cemetery was
established, the first in Missouri. The two cemeteries
were united by direction of the federal
government in 1911. Members of the United states armed
forces of every war since 1861
rest here, as well as a soldier of the American
Revolution, William Freeman. In the original
National Cemetery is the monument honoring federal
soldiers who fought at the Battle of
Springfield, January 8, 1863, and a monument to General
Nathaniel Lyon, who died at
Wilson's Creek and was buried in his native Connecticut.
In 1901 a monument to General
Sterling Price and the Confederates of Missouri were
placed in the cemetery. Near the
entrance are cannons from the Civil War forts around
Springfield and a bronze tablet
bearing the Gettysburg address. This site has been
proposed for inclusion in the National
Register of Historic Places. Owned by the Veterans
Administration, United States
Government.
Springfield Historical Site Register: August 19, 1974
Open to the public during visiting hours
Brochure available

Try here:
Springfield-Greene County Library
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/

Springfield National Cemetery
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
http://www.interment.net/data/us/mo/greene/springnat/

(He is not listed here, but they say that Records of burials were provided
to this website by the U.S. Department of Veteran's
Affairs, on July 2, 2000. This is not a complete list of burials, only
those that are on file
with the VA. So he may be here.)

Desoto Joe/The Record Man

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