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| Joined: | Tue Nov 20th, 2007 |
| Location: | Corinth, MS |
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I am a Shiloh Park Ranger stationed at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. I would be delighted to talk to you about Shiloh burials and your quest to find the location of unmarked burial sites. First off I would discourage you from searching for graves within the park boundries without specific written permission by park authorities. All graves on the park, marked or unmaked are protected by law.
If you have found a letter or diary entry which sheds light on a possible burial site I would be intrested in seeing it. Please come by the Interpretive Center during your visit so we can meet and shoot the breeze.
Ed, concerning the burials at the indian mounds. The 28th Illinois Infantry buried thier dead on top of one of the mounds and these dead were reinterred to the National Cemetery in 1866. Severeal years ago archeologists from the Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) operated a ground penetrating radar unit on top of the mound. The scan revealed a "disturbance" in the soil remained in the grave site but there was insufficent evidence to suggest there were human remains. It is believed that some rubbish or possibly clothing was thrown into the exhumed grave before it was filled back in. If there was the slightest thought that human remains were still in the grave site there would have been a dig on the site for verification.
Tom