Most of those in Chicago are in Oakwoods Cemetery. We have a list of 405 Ark soldiers and their web page is linked back to this section of our page. Those names were in a local newspaper many years ago. Thanks to all, Edwaqrd G. http://www.insolwwb.net/~egerdes/ -----Original Message----- From: LBate18495@aol.com <LBate18495@aol.com> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com <CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 5:26 PM Subject: [CW-POW-L] Oates commission > Dear All > My maternal relative Governor William Calvin Oates was commissioned >by the War Department between 1906 and 1909 to find and mark as many >Confederate Sailors, Soldiers, and civilian graves through out the North. The >government should have a record of this. I know that over 8900 graves were >marked by him. IN one newspaper article published in 1909 he claimed that he >identified in Chicago at least 10,000 graves. He also had monuments erected >at Alton, and in Philadelphia and somewhere else in Pennsylvania also at Point >Lookout. At Santa Fe. Also someone may want to contact the National Archives >about records there. > >