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From: "Colleen Knights" <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Fw: Edward Whitney, Co. C, 100th Indiana
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:11:42 -0500


I got a response back from the Nat'l Park Svc historian for Chattanooga
Nat'l Cemetery regarding my questions on Edward Whitney. It wasn't what I
wanted to hear, but is a definite answer. His suggestions below may help
someone else.

Colleen
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Subject: Edward Whitney, Co. C, 100th Indiana


> Ms. Knights:
>
> One of the frustrating things about the Battle of Missionary Ridge is the
> amazingly limited number of identified graves of Union dead from that
> battle that can be found. You would think, that given the fact that Union
> forces controlled the battlefield at the end of the engagement, that all
of
> their dead would have gotten buried in a fashion that would allow their
> identities to remain with the bodies. I am continually amazed, however,
as
> in the case of your Edward Whitney, Co. C, 100th Indiana, how few I can
> clearly find in the Chattanooga National Cemetery. I also checked the
> registers of the National Cemeteries at Murfreesboro and Nashville,
> Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky, placed on the railroad line of
> communications behind the Union Army of the Cumberland to see if his body
> had been moved to one of those places at some point. There was no likely
> entry. Could the body have been moved back to his family or home area in
> Indiana or some other state? That is a slight possibility so you might
> want to check.
>
> We have several sets of records on the Chattanooga National Cemetery that
> are more complete than the online index you used. A careful review of
> them, however, did not turn up an identified grave for your Whitney. The
> Edward Whitlock you found in the online index and about whom you inquired
> was a member of Co. F, 16th United States Colored Troops. He died on May
> 20, apparently in 1864. Section I is one of the two sections within the
> cemetery where black veterans were interred (that type of segregation
> continued within the cemetery well into the 20th century). Given all the
> evidence, this Edward Whitlock could not be your Edward Whitney.
>
> To pursue this further, you might want to look at other 100th Indiana
> sources and see if some soldier in a letter, diary, journal, or memior
> mentions the disposition of their dead. You might want to find a casualty
> list for the 100th Indiana for the Battle of Missionary Ridge and see if
> you can find graves for any of the other members of the regiment who are
> reported killed.
>
> Jim Ogden
>
> James Ogden, III
> Historian
> Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
> P. O. Box 2128 (postal mailing address)
> 3370 LaFayette Road (shipping address only)
> Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742
> 706-866-9241, ext. 116
> 423-752-5213, ext. 116
> 423-752-5215(f)
>
>
>
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