Posted on 11/14/2013 4:23:57 PM PST by Pharmboy
RICHMOND, VA. – A group working to preserve a New York military cemetery from the Revolutionary War says it has identified 15 soldiers from Virginia believed to be buried there.
The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot has pored over old muster rolls, military correspondence, private letters, physicians’ journals and other documents to identify soldiers buried in unmarked graves on privately owned land in New York’s Hudson Valley.
So far, they’ve been able to identify 84 listed in the records as having died at Fishkill. The group announced the new identifications on Monday, including the soldiers from Virginia who died between 1778 and 1779. Other soldiers that have been identified hailed from Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Canada.
“With each new name that is identified, we revisit the history and honor of this sacred site,” Lance Ashworth, president of the preservation group, said in a news release.
Among the Virginians identified by the group is Cpl. James Bartley, who served in the 1st Continental Artillery Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Harrison. Bartley was listed as sick at the Fishkill hospital on Sept. 12, 1778, and died sometime in October of that year. The Virginia soldiers also include 12 privates, and two others who had the rank of Matross, or artillery soldier.
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When I lived in Virginia Beach, one of the local colleges began to excavate a British Cemetery near Gloucester. It had been the site of a British military hospital during the revolution.
They got a letter from the British Embassy asking them to stop as they did not want their soldiers bodies dug up. I think they did stop.
i’m so against disturbing cemeteries in any way. there is never a good reason.
Perhaps in former times the Brits would have sent a team over to supervise.
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On November 12, 2013, Dennis Parker wrote:
"I was just reading an article in Fox News about you identifying fallen soldiers for the American Revolution. I just wanted to thank you for what you are doing. It means alot to the country and alot to us true Americans who believe what our country stands for."
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