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No, there does not seem to be any info re. his burial, in either the National Archives nor within the family. (He
is my great-great-grandfather.) The pension records even
say his effects were "abandoned for want of transportation."

He was in Co. M, 2nd Indiana Cavalry.

Today (Jan. 27) the New York Times Book Review features a new book, This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust. In the
review it says "when the war began, the Union Army had no burial details, no graves registration, no means to notify next of kin, no provision for decent burial, no systematic way to count the dead, no national cemeteries to bury them." It goes on further to say that dead enlisted men were "generally just wrapped in blankets and buried where they died."

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