**Antietam
Friday**
Antietam’s
National Cemetery may not be as large as Gettysburg’s, but it definitely has
the same intimate, hallowed feel. The gatehouse is located along Dunker Church
Road, a major artery for the battlefield, and its gothic style catches your eye
before you even walk through the gate. Once inside, you’ll notice poem plaques
much like the ones you’d see at Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Not
everyone buried at the cemetery is a Civil War casualty. For instance, one of
the only stones I can read on the third photo (first stone in the second row)
is for John Clancy Butler, a soldier in the Motor Transportation Corps who died
in October 1945. The second visible stone is in the row closest to the camera,
in the middle. This is Francis M. Reynolds, who died August 1943 at the age of
27.
PVT. FERDINAND D. TABER
Co. A, 1ST Louisiana
Infantry
Born 1836 --- Died August 10,
1863 at age 27
Seeing
how many of his friends had been shot to pieces during the Gettysburg battle,
Pvt. Taber might have felt himself lucky that his reason for being sent to Camp
Letterman was dysentery. Unfortunately, disease could and did kill men just as
effectively, and he died on August 10TH at the age of 27. He was
later buried at Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery.
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