At 12:15 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote: > > There is a stone for Orin in Lenox, Susquehanna Co., Pa > > Tower Cemetery > (also known as West Lenox) Mary Jean, Thanks for the information. If it's ok with you, I'll list the information on my web page. I'll have to check, but I think I remember some information about Orin Tiffany in the 187th regimental history. When I get to PA next time, I'll have to get over there and take a photo of the tombstone. Sadly, I suspect that Orin Tiffany probably had the same fate as one of my uncles in Company G (Cornelius Frey). If one were killed outright on the battlefield, he was usually buried where he fell. If one were lucky enough to survive long enough to be carried to the rear before he expired, he was buried at City Point. Some even survived long enough to be taken to other hospitals (One cousin died a month later in Washington of wounds suffered that day; he is buried in Arlington). In 1866, they formed the U.S. Burial Corps, and combed a 50 square-mile area around Petersburg. The soldiers that had been buried where they fell were exhumed and re-interred at the newly-built Poplar Grove Cemetery southwest of Petersburg. Unfortunately, by that time, it was very difficult to identify the dead, which is why so many of them are "unknown" at Poplar Grove. I strongly suspect that Orin Tiffany is among those. As far as I know, the only identification that they carried was a note containing their names, pinned to their coats. With all the shot, cannister and musketry flying, it is doubtful that a piece of paper would have survived, let alone being buried for 2 years. I think one of the saddest facts (in addition to the fact that they were killed in the first place), is that so many men are "lost". Maybe we'll find a way to identify them in the future. It's fortunate that some of these men have the monument, and Orin has a tombstone, in order to be remembered. Heaven knows that what these men did, and what happened to them is worth remembering. Thanks, again. Tom Walters NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field Cleveland, OH