The Unknown Confederate Soldier

unknown soldierYou probably didn’t know there was one. I didn’t, until I found this photo at the site for Beauvoir, CSA President Jefferson Davis’s last home, at Biloxi, on the Mississippi coast. It took a big hit from Katrina, but it’s now restored and still owned and run as a memorial by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

This unknowns crypt is part of the home’s cemetery in which 767 Confederate veterans (and some wives) are buried, listed by name, rank and unit . Four were in Texas units. (Watch your speakers when you click on the site link, or you will be blasted by the strains of “Dixie.” Pleasant enough version, actually, but not at full volume.)

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