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Cedar Falls Gazette
Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa
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Miss Clara Barton received a $15,000 congressional appropriation for identifying and marking 12,920 Union soldiers' graves at Andersonville, Georgia prison in July 1865, countering a Dubuque Herald report dismissing her efforts as 'wanderings through the South.'
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Miss Clara Barton went to Andersonville, Georgia, in July, 1865, for the purpose of identifying the graves and enclosing the grounds of a cemetery created there during the occupation of that place as a prison for Union soldiers in Rebel hands. The astonishing number of 12,920 graves were marked, each with the name, company and regiment, and date of death of the soldier who slept beneath, except 400 which had only the touching inscription, "Unknown Union Soldier." "The money was as a recompense for certain wanderings through the South!"
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Andersonville, Georgia
Event Date
July 1865
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12,920 graves marked with name, company, regiment, and date of death; 400 marked as 'unknown union soldier'; congressional appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars received as recompense.
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Miss Clara Barton went to Andersonville, Georgia, in July, 1865, for the purpose of identifying the graves and enclosing the grounds of a cemetery created there during the occupation of that place as a prison for Union soldiers in Rebel hands.