Posted on behalf of my friend Joe Kyle, historian of Hanover Tavern

On Fri, May 23, 2008  Joe Kyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Hi Jon   I'm not more than a lurker on the LOV site, so I send you this.
> If warranted, pls post to the LOV listserve.
>
> Another factor propelling the Ladies' Memorial Societies in various
> southern states, was the action taken by congress in 1866 to rebury Union
> soliders hastily buried on battlefields across the south in new
> National Cemetery sites. Each National Cemetery would be enclosed by a
> sturdy wall, and a caretaker's house would be built.  The caretaker (with
> his family) was usually a wounded Union ex soldier. His job was to care for
> the graves.  In the Richmond area they would be at Ft. Harrison, Glendale
> and Cold Harbor. I'm told that CSA dead were specifically excluded.  So a
> "National" Cemetery that excluded CSA dead generated widespread indignation
> in the South. The Ladies said, if the "nation" won't honor our dead, then we
> will.
>
> I'm now retired from the Tavern, but new duties include 2 young grandkids
> (girls) in NOVA.
>



-- 
Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com

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