Love researching Genealogy and while researching my 3rd Great John Johnson Golmon's military service and death, I found a group of forgotten soldiers.
In an area of Old Gray cemetery there is a grouping of civil war era unmarked graves. It is common local knowledge there are CSA soldiers, yet no community seems ready to identify them.
After years of research through archives and such, I feel certain the of the soldiers who were buried during a very brief few months following the Fall of Knoxville in late Nov63 -Feb of 64. These soldiers were prisoners of the Knoxville "Jail", registered as sick with the US Provost and died before the Bethel (Rebel) cemetery was commonly used for burial of CSA soldiers. Knoxville was in such turmoil at this time NONE of these men are listed on the Knoxville Coroners list as well. For years the community has looked to the Coroner's List as the verification of unknown graves. Sadly, the coroner did not include those who died in jail and the Union forces buried quietly following the fall of Knoxville . These soldiers were in Union custody, documented and were buried in what the "new to town" Union Provost referred to as the public, local, city cemetery. Records even clearly state the graves were kept unmarked as "not to alert succession sympathizers".
Please consider looking over the names of these forgotten men. Thank you!
Perhaps YOU can be the person who helps them get markers!

Love researching Genealogy and while researching my 3rd Great John Johnson Golmon's military service and death, I found a group of forgotten soldiers.
In an area of Old Gray cemetery there is a grouping of civil war era unmarked graves. It is common local knowledge there are CSA soldiers, yet no community seems ready to identify them.
After years of research through archives and such, I feel certain the of the soldiers who were buried during a very brief few months following the Fall of Knoxville in late Nov63 -Feb of 64. These soldiers were prisoners of the Knoxville "Jail", registered as sick with the US Provost and died before the Bethel (Rebel) cemetery was commonly used for burial of CSA soldiers. Knoxville was in such turmoil at this time NONE of these men are listed on the Knoxville Coroners list as well. For years the community has looked to the Coroner's List as the verification of unknown graves. Sadly, the coroner did not include those who died in jail and the Union forces buried quietly following the fall of Knoxville . These soldiers were in Union custody, documented and were buried in what the "new to town" Union Provost referred to as the public, local, city cemetery. Records even clearly state the graves were kept unmarked as "not to alert succession sympathizers".
Please consider looking over the names of these forgotten men. Thank you!
Perhaps YOU can be the person who helps them get markers!