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    1. Identification of Confederates in unknown burial plot
    2. Don Silvius
    3. In Greenhill Cemetery in Martinsburg, WV, there is a plot which was owned by the U.D.C. in 1898 where there are thirty Confederate soldiers buried who were relocated from farms, etc., outside Martinsburg and within Berkeley County. Two of these soldiers have been positively identified. There are two more for whom we have some identification, but not enough to call it a positive identification. From a handwritten committee report and a newspaper item dated Jan. 22, 1898, when these two soldiers were relocated, they were identified as Captain Van Wyck and Lieutenant Orr, members of a North Carolina regiment. Upon closer examination of the original handwritten report, the name is obviously "lieut. R" - not Orr. Checking the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors system website, has not yielded any information on the identity of these two men. Does anyone have information on a North Carolina regiment that was in Berkeley County, VA (now WV) that had two officers who died or were buried in (most likely) either Darkesville or Bunker Hill? Lee's retreat from Gettysburg came through Berkeley County, and parts of the army camped in both Bunker Hill and Darkesville. There were 72 engagements of all types (none large) in Berkeley County and Martinsburg changed hands 38 times. If anyone can assist in this search it would be greatly appreciated. This is a joint SCV, SUV and local historical society project. Thanks for your time, Don Silvius Berkeley County (WV) Historical Society Berkeley Border Guards Camp 199, Sons of Confederate Veterans GAR Post 1, Abraham Lincoln Camp 1863, Sons of Union Veterans

    05/11/2006 12:37:00