It really depends on a number of factors surrounding their deaths. If they died of disease or wounds, they could have been buried at the site of their death or the family could have claimed their body. If they died in a prison camp, they were probably buried there. The good news, if there can be any good news, about their death in a northern prison camp is that most of the cemeteries have been designated national cemeteries and the database of burials is on-line at the following web site: http://www.cem.va.gov/hm.htm Most soldiers who were captured in the early months of the war were only imprisoned for a short time until they could be exchanged. Later in the war the infamous camps like Fort Delaware and Rock Island started to fill up in the north, like Andersonville did in the south. -------------- Original message -------------- From: PogosBill@aol.com > I have two soilders from Cherokee County that died within six months of > joining the Civil War. They died in Virginia. Would they have been buried > there? Is there some way to find where they were buried? > > > ==== GACHEROK Mailing List ==== > GACHEROK-L mailing list archives. Search by name, etc. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GACHEROK > RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archives. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/ > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at > the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&target > id=5429 >