“Thes five brave soldiers died in the service of their country.”
Where did you get the idea that they were brave? All that is known is they were foraging and got killed. As I have pointed out, foraging meant stealing from the locals. It would seem they may have encountered some true combatants rather than civilians. Because a newspaper wants to write a sympathetic article, history is to be forgotten?
Wow, you really do know how to dig a hole, don't you? You might as well enter the drilling business.
From the fact that they gave their lives in defense of their country. Oh, that plus the fact that the Confederate veteran who owned the farm on which they died thought their deaths worthy of remembrance.
But what's his opinion compared to yours?