Just to clarify a few things, during the Civil War there was a 2 year waiting period between the time a soldier was buried in the field and could be moved to another location, because the bodies were not embalmed and the bodies could decay to bone before removal. As to burials on the farm the remains probably are still on the farm and the stones removed and or destroyed by subsequent owners. The farm my 2x Greatgrandfather owned had a family cemetery on it, when I went to find it I was told that the stones had been removed and the ground plowed over, never could find the stones. The stones on another relatives farm had been moved across the street to a church cemetery, then the cemetery plowed over. A cemetery inwhich some of my wife's family is buried was saved from this fate when a group of the desendants bought the parcel of land and fenced it off. In Maryland where I live and where this all happened it is against the law to disturb cemetery in this fashion, but no one seems to be enforcing it. Robert Gill Gotthardt, Pulliam, Keller, Armstrong, Nantz, in Macoupin Co., ILL