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I would doubt that he wu=ould have been disinterred from Shiloh and reinterred elsewhere. Remember all the dead were buried in mass graves (trenches). After the war when the union troops were reinterred in the National Cemetery at Shiloh, most were unknown as no records were made of who was buried where. Only if there was some way to identify a body at a later date was a name known, or in the case of Pvt Putnam, someone carved the info on a tree. The vast majority of the union graves are numbered, not named. In the case of the Confederates, they were buried in trenches and that was it! No attempt was made to identify the dead or record where they were buried. to be able to find a single soldier even at the time would have been very difficult, later approaching impossible (MHO)
A wounded man could have died anywhere in the local area. Renee, a number of wounded went by boat to Florence. And a number who died at Florence are buried at Soldier's Rest, a part of the old city cemetery....Give me a name and I will try to look for you when I am next in Florence...maybe a couple of weeks...no promises..
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