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my favorite is in the Greenhill, Tx cemetery:
"Mama loved Pa. Pa loved the women. Mama caught him with two in a-swimming. Here lies Pa."
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We don't get many CVA graves in northwestern Illinois but there are certainly a good number of GAR graves marked by a GAR metal plate on a metal stick.
In the town graveyard in our miniscule rural town of 300 living folks, we have about eight to ten GAR graves, mostly without much further detail but one is of a 21-year-old whose gravestone indicates that he fell at Shiloh. There is also a monument in the center of the adjacent metropolis of a thousand living folks which carries the names of either those who served or those who served and were killed in the Civil War. There are dozens of names. Most local roads are named after the family names of those soldiers.
I have seen the graveyard at the North Church in Boston where, Jonathan Davenport's gravestone is prominent. He was pastor there late in his life. Earlier, he was the founder of New Haven in the vicinity of which I spent most of my life.
I am more emotionally engaged by any grave of anyone, however personally unknown to us today, who fell in either nation's military in the War Between the States than I would be by the many well-known non-Civil War worthies buried in the Northeast or elsewhere.
One exception: George Armstrong Custer. Though a distinguished cavalry officer of the Union, his fate at Little Big Horn was a sort of Lifetime Achievement Award and well-deserved.