Subj: Re: Camp Jackson in Pensacola From: rwhite@pone.com (Richard White) Ron... With a war going on at the time I guess that it was just too bad if you died for whatever reason, on military service in Florida. I have been looking into relatives with the 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment, one being my great great grandfather's brother who died of disease during training at Quincy, Florida (which was at that time the headquarters of the military commander of Middle Florida and an unnamed part of South Georgia extending basically from Thomasville to Americus) and another soldier who may have been my great great grandfather's half-brother, who died at the Battle of Olustee. Simply put, soldiers who died in Florida seem to have just been put in a hole somewhere and forgotten, at least at the time. There generally seem to be no records of place of interment. To the best I can determine, Confederate soldiers who died in Quincy were buried together in a plot in a long-existing cemetery there. The Confederate soldiers killed outright at Olustee and other who were cared for at Lake City but died later were interred in a cemetery existing at Lake City. There were so many casualties at Olustee, however, including wounded Confederate soldiers and Union prisoners, that they were taken for medical care all over the place, including Savannah, Tallahassee and Quincy and a number of miscellaneous other places. Some could have died and been buried in these places. Some wounded negro Union soldiers capered at Olustee were not transferred to Camp Sumter at Andersonville until months after the battle. And speaking of Camp Sumter, although a number of the Confederate personnel there died, I am not aware that any of them were buried at the prison site. I am pretty sure that all of the burials at Camp Sumter were of Union prisoners. Except for the Yankees killed at Olustee who were very great in number and were hastily and inadequately buried in a mass grave at the battle site, it seems so far as I know that the prevailing practice was to bury casualties and soldiers who died of injury or disease, Confederate and Union, in existing cemeteries in the principal nearby towns, particularly Quincy... which was the center of command for Middle Florida, and Lake City... which was the center for command for East Florida. There were also burials in Tallahassee due to the Battle of Natural Bridge 14 miles south of Tallahassee and due to casualties being sent there for care after the Battle of Olustee. To the best of my knowledge virtually none of these graves is marked with the name of the person buried there. There are no markers at all at Quincy, except one erected recently and indicating burials of unknown Confederate soldiers in an iron fence enclosed area in one cemetery. Information that I have received orally indicates a belief that Confederate soldiers were also buried in unmarked graves in another existing cemetery in Quincy. At least some of the graves in Tallahassee are marked with stones, a few with names, I believe I am not sure of the complete situation there. Although I live in Tallahassee, I have not visited the Old City Cemetery for quite some time. The graves of Confederate soldiers in Lake City numbering over 150, are marked with stones that... to me at least... are somewhat eerily completely devoid of markings of any kind. In their approximate center a large memorial was erected... and there is another large monument in the town square directing visitors to the cemetery. I have spent the past few days searching the Official Records and trying to glean the history of the Confederate command structure in Florida, which was by no means static... and I have neglected the area that includes Pensacola, but what I am getting at is a question as to how you know that he was buried at Camp Jackson? I have seen Civil War burials at the military cemetery near Pensacola (I disremember the cemetery name at this point [is it Barrancas?] but you probably know what I'm talking about). Unless you have specific information that he was actually buried at the Camp (and I have yet to see any such information but would be glad to hear of its existence) it would seem more probable to me that he would have been interred at a nearby existing cemetery rather than some transitory camp. Further, since Pensacola was a long-standing military base, it would seem likely that interments in that area would be at the existing military cemetery if it was under control of the Confederates at the time. I understand that even some soldiers interred various places during the Seminole Wars, had been later reinterred there. As you can see, your question ties into several subjects that are of general interest to me and I am curious to know what led you to conclude that he was buried at the Camp. I am currently working on a web site on the Battle of Natural Bridge for the new Natural Bridge Historical Society, Inc., and as a part of that effort I intend to visit the Old City Cemetery and better inform myself about the Civil War burials here. For anyone who is interested in the web site, it is at http://pone.com/nb/ I am just getting started with the web site, but would relish any family information that descendants of any of the participants, Confederate or Union, might provide. Richard White Tallahassee