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SITE ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 19 2006 |
LAST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 27 2009 |
PIECES OF HISTORY [LINKS]
Adjutant General's Compact Regimental History
Private Tabler's Regimental Itinerary
Historical Memoranda of the Fifty-First Illinois
Stones River Notes :: Stones River Accounts
The Regiment's Prisoners of War :: A Growing List
The Chaplain :: The Surgeon :: The Quartermaster
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A MEMENTO: The Grave of a Stranger-Boy
Our readers remember a notice we gave sometime ago of a steamboat load of secesh prisoners, taken at Island 10, who were on their way to Wisconsin; and that the body of one of them was buried here. His name was given as F. B. Carpenter, 24th Tennessee regiment, aged 15 years. A walk to the grave yard on the bluff will show that his grave, although among strangers, is not neglected. Last Sunday his grave was literally covered with flowers. A rose bush and some other flowering plants have been placed on the grave, and almost any day in the week fresh flowers can be seen there. Should this item chance to meet his mother's eye she will learn that the remains of her darling boy are treated with tenderness and respect... and fresh flowers are scattered on the grave of the stranger boy.
[Alas! His mother would not learn here. There was no Carpenter in the 24th, and the 24th was not captured at No. 10.]
Rock Island Evening Argus, May 26, 1862 |
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