GDG- buried dead still at Gettysburg?
Michael Brubaker
mike_brubaker at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 28 11:57:12 CDT 2008
I live in Gettysburg and I've read the many stories about the Confederate dead being disinterred after the battle and reburied down South at a later date. I often have visitors to my home ask me if there are corpses still out there on the field and don't have an answer for them. I just got done reading the Wert book on the third day of the battle and he mentions about how Garnett's body was not discovered and probably was buried in a mass grave somewhere. Have there been any statistics published showing how many of the deceased were reinterred or how many are presumed to still be on the field? Not to be morbid, but I've not heard a definitive answer to this question in the many Gettysburg books I've read.
Thanks,
Mike Brubaker
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