Ms. Bruce,
Unfortunately, I do not think I can be of much help with either query, but I was able to find a couple of things.
1. Ironically, I am from Missouri, and my father is buried at Jefferson Barracks. I also grew up with a keen interest in Missouri during the Civil War since I had relatives who fought on both sides - at least two of my confederate kin were guerillas whose death dates and resting places are yet to be discovered...they just drop from the records, and there is plenty of family lore that attempts to fill the void.
My understanding is that around 1,000 Confederates and political prisoners are buried at Jeff Barracks, most of whom were re-interred after 1869 from Arsenal Island, Quarantine Island (an Island in the Mississippi where small pox and yellow fever patients were sent), Bethel Church cemetery, and Wesleyan Church cemetery. I am not aware of any soldiers whose bodies were shipped west to be buried at JB unless the family made arrangements to do so. The Sterling Price Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has a very good roster of the Confederates known to have been buried at Jefferson Barracks: http://www.pricecamp.org/jbgraves.htm. On a whim, I checked "U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms" on Ancestry and they list "Alx C. Thompson" as a "refugee" at Jefferson Barracks who died on 26 September, 1864 and was interred the same day, so I don't think this is your Alex.
2. As for your second query, your cousin would not be listed in the separation notices since he died while in service. Lyn Hart, head of State Records and Private Papers, suggested that the only other place where he may possibly be mentioned is in the "WWII History Commission's Personal War Service Record of Virginia's War Dead, 1941-1946" (accession 24805). That said, I'd be hard pressed to say that we would have anything that would not already be included in his official service record.
All the best and Good luck,
John
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From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruby Pantalone
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] veteran's info
Years ago when I was looking for records for John E Landers, that I knew had died at the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia , I sent a message to the State of Georgia Quarter Master for the Battle Field of Chickamauga
I was told that they had buried the Confederate Soldiers in a mass grave and didn't know the names. I later read in John E Landers was taken home to
Sweet Water, TN on the back of his sons, Williams horse.
Ruby
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From: Carolyn H Bruce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, May 17, 2013 2:44 pm
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] veteran's info
> John D. Metz
> Director of Archives, Records, and Collection Services The Library of
> Virginia
Dear Mr. Metz,
I saw the answer to you sent to another researcher's military question, and wondered if you might have the time to help me with two military quandaries I have:
1. My 2great-grandfather, Alexander Jennings THOMPSON was born in Franklin Co, VA, 23 Nov 1832, enlisted in the Confederate Army 29 May 1861, Wytheville, VA, by Col. H. Heth, (according to NARA records) was wounded 19 Sept 1864 at the Battle of the Opequon, and died _25_ Sept
1864 of his wounds. I have queried the Winchester-Frederick Historical Society and others, and though he died in a U.S. Army Field Hospital, there is apparently no record of where he was buried. I know many/most Confederates were buried in "trench graves", but shouldn't they have a record of some kind? Your comment to the query referenced earlier about a burial at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery reminded me of "my"
Alex THOMPSON, because an "Alexander THOMPSON" is buried there who died on _26_ Sept 1864, but is listed as a "non-military civilian". It is my understanding that some soldiers from the eastern battles were buried in Jefferson Barracks. How would one go about investigating whether or not my suspicion is valid?
2. My second question is not so convoluted: my first cousin, Charles Lewis HALE, Jr., born in 1913 in Roanoke, VA, served in WWII as a bomber pilot and was on terminal leave from the USAAF when in April of 1946, he took off from Borges Airfield in Yolo Co, CA, and crashed back into a hangar, which subsequently burned. Does the state of Virginia's military archives hold any records of his service in the war? At the time of his death, his second wife was pregnant with their only child, a son, who was born the following October. I'd like to give him more info on his dad's war experience. To my knowledge he was a Captain at war's end, had been previously married and had a daughter named Sue Ann, aged about 13 when he died.
Any information you can provide in either instance would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
Carolyn HALE BRUCE
Virginia Beach, VA
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