Hi John, I just wanted to tell you this story becasue if you know the right people, pull the right strings you can MAKE the goverment take care of civil war grave and still get VA stones for the civil war vet's. This is why I'm trying to find Thomas Jefferson Prosise's grave. Back in 1963 a cousin back in ILL. sent me this clipping about a Robert Prosise who died at the Andersonville Prison. He was taken prisoner in Knoxville after being sick and crawled into a wagon for about 3 days and his commander had him listed as an diserter. To make a long story short 25 years later this was removed from his record but he died at Andersonville. In 1990 I went to visit his grave only to learn he was not even listed as being there but for some reason I had his war papers in my hand so they took copy's and I had taken his family gr. sheet of genealogy. they put it in the file with a red tag saying people could look at documents. BUT I learned his body was with about 50 other unknown solders and they would would not put a marker up for him. I then wrote D.C. and given the run around. I felt there was nothing I could do for Robert. His father William & Robert enlisted the same day and his father died of lung fever at home.Eliza the mother got her son's back pay 25 years after his death , when his record was cleared. Then one day about 20 years later this James Herrbett, from Ga. wrote me asking if I had any information on this family and I was happy to hand over all that I had. Jim found first Williams grave in an old farm yard & it was still standing, then he found Williams wife Eliza grave standing all alone in the Synder Cem. Marrion Co., ILL. Then he was writing to all the right places and in 1999 the V.A. placed a marker on each side of wife & mother Eliza.. the body's are not there but on the back of the stones that were made high and not on the ground he put in writing where the body's were. Jim & I became fast friends and still are and he sent me a picture of the stones together and I shed a few tears.Over a 100 years but it can still be done. If someone wants to take on this task I can ask Jim or put the person in contact with him for his help. Everyone should read the "The Blue & the Grey" and walk through that cemetery you can feel the sadness. In later years I learned John A. Prosise was also there. In Robert's war records there is a letter to his mother and a poem "Little boy Blue" he wrote. He died at the age of 18. Just to think I had started this research and with a happy ending makes genealogy all worth while. Not only that but we were told Robert was the only unknown soldier that was asked for a headstone. Phyllis