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Information on Union Soldiers Disposition in Columbia KY Adair County Historian Mike Watson finds that a number of Union Soldiers, including Burrell Leonard Strange, died while stationed here in the Civil War; though the general locations are known, none of the graves were marked, with the exception of soldiers from Adair County. Comments re article 63827 Query Union Soldiers Disposition in Columbia KY By Mike Watson (After conversing with a CM staff member on Saturday about this soldier, I have checked the records available to me and have found the following: Burrell Leonard Strange, resident of Anderson County, Kentucky, member of Company K, 9 Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, Union Army, Civil War, died at one of the camps around Columbia, Adair County on 21 June 1863 with "camp sickness" or a form of dysentery. No mention was made in any official record as to the disposition of his remains. Since it was summer, burial was likely the same day or next morning after death, as was the custom. Often, if no action or movement was pending and the soldier did not live too far away, the family could come collect the remains or friends were allowed to accompany the body home. But this was not usually done in hot weather for obvious reasons. There is no official record of location of mass burials of soldiers who died while encamped around Columbia, though there were many hundreds of deaths. Some were taken away, as above stated, but many had to have been buried close by. The Columbia cemetery does not have any marked veteran graves other than those who lived here; many town cemeteries where soldiers were encamped do have sections of these burials. Some may have been buried in town cemetery, but I have never found evidence of this. Some burials were supposed to have been in the Tutt addition, behind where the old Graded School was located, but exact locations are not now known and were never marked with stones. There are several places around the county where soldiers who were not local were buried, but none are marked, only tradition gives the locations. Such as, behind old Tabor Church there are five or so Confederate soldiers buried, but exact place is not know, just behind the church somewhere; and never marked. The closest (now called) National Cemeteries to Columbia were at Nancy, Danville or Lebanon, but I do not find Private Strange's name on their lists; nor have I found names of other men who died at Columbia, who were not native, who were transported to one of the cemeteries that later became National Cemeteries. --Mike Watson Comments re article 63827 Query Union Soldiers Disposition in Columbia KY This story was posted on 2013-12-10 03:38:21
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