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| There are at least two women among those in the Register. Martha Davenport (Ref #1555) has no entry for unit of assignment but has the remark "C. S. A." with her name. Catharine Hodges (Ref #2915) is shown as having been assigned to Company K, 5th Louisiana. There is a possible third: Miss, H. (Ref #4245) is shown as having been from North Carolina. These names leave open the possibility that there are other women interred since the vast majority of entries list only last name and initials.
There are entries for the names Cabbage (Company K, 7th Virginia, Ref #914), Name, A. (Company H, 52nd North Carolina, Ref # 4431) and Rebel, - (No unit of assignment, Ref #4498). Parker, Capt. John from the British Steamer Modern Grace (Ref #4637) is buried among the Confederates. There are three entries for Limbs - Box from hospital (Ref #3806, #3807, #3808). Ref #4939 is an entry which reads Palmer's, Mrs. - Box from, by Belvin with no further explanation. Ref #7041 is for Wyatt, Young, 1st North Carolina Regiment, and further identified in the Remarks column as First martyr. This is likely Henry Lawson Wyatt, the first Confederate soldier killed in the War. There is more information in an excerpt from 1892 publication on the web at http://www.civilwarhome.com/firstsoldierkilled.htm. The initials M. S. in the Remarks column indicates the existence of a marble slab to mark the grave site. A technique I used to find some of my own errors yielded an interesting result. I made a search for duplicated grave numbers (identically lettered section and number). While I found a few that identified my own errors, I found approximately 200 pairs (and a few triplets) of duplicate grave sites that appear in the original Register. Of these, I identified 15 pairs of names which appear to represent differences in spelling of the name of a single individual. As examples: De Watt, - and Watts, D.E. in grave B155 ; Lyle, James and Syle, J. in grave F29. There are also 26 instances of an unknown soldier being shown in the same grave as a named soldier. It is a stretch to say that these reveal the identities of some unknowns, but they may be clues. These duplicate sites are shown in their own separate file. |
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