They were buried in a big pile of dead soldiers - because there were so many and there is no headstone for them save a monument recognizing their collective effort.
It is very sad that these people protesting have no idea the pain the families felt when their sons did not come home.
“It is very sad that these people protesting have no idea the pain the families felt when their sons did not come home.”
Understand these “people” (and I use that term advisedly): they are Leftists who want to tear down everyone that opposes them, and everything that helped or is honored by those who oppose them. They want power, and actually look forward to causing great pain and suffering on their way to obtaining it. God help us if they ever get it - with modern technology, Joseph Stalin and Mao will look like pikers.
As for me, I had no family here during the Civil War - my first distant relative (my grandfather’s youngest uncle on his mother’s side) came here in 1887. The earliest that any direct ancestor of mine came here was in 1905, and most of those in my family came between 1910 and 1923. From Russia and Poland, ruled by the Czar of All the Russias...and who was overthrown by Russian Leftists. Those MFers stole all of my great GF’s property (dozens of horses and carts and 14 houses that he built by hand, with his sons), save the house that he lived in (and he had to share that with 3 other families). That was in 1923. In 1937, the MFers in the NKVD beat him so badly that he died (at age 74 - who beats an old, broken man?) of his wounds. Suffice it to say, I have not one molecule of sympathy for Leftists of any stripe - I’d have them all killed in an instant, if I could, as a way of preventing all of the misery that their kind have already inflicted upon humanity from being visited upon this nation.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
The history of Vicksburg and the battlefield there are very interesting...Nothing to be ashamed of in your family. No one who lost members of their families on either side has anything to apologize for.
We do know one thing for certain - none of the pukes parading on TV will EVER fight or die for their country! Like Patton said (paraphrasing) - let the other poor SOB die for it. These are totally useless and worthless human beings - if even human. Too bad we don’t have a draft! But why degrade the military any further than obozo already did?
One of the primary reasons that the children of the Southern soldiers lovingly erected monuments to them after their passing is because there are so many “unknown-unmarked” burials of Confederate soldiers. It is the height of vulgarity and savagery to defile these monuments.