In another peripheral artifact from recent research:
The Jackson Daily News reported in 1912 that bodies of some Confederate soldiers either killed at Shiloh in 1862, or who died thereafter in hospitals at Jackson and Corinth, were accidentally dug up by construction crews 1/
The Jackson Daily News reported in 1912 that bodies of some Confederate soldiers either killed at Shiloh in 1862, or who died thereafter in hospitals at Jackson and Corinth, were accidentally dug up by construction crews 1/
digging a storm sewer along Farish Street—the "Black Wall Street" of Jackson, MS. The newspaper reported that the bodies of Confederate dead had been buried “in the streets” all over Jackson after the battle of Shiloh. The paper claimed that after the battle, 2/
every possible building in Jackson had been in use as a hospital, and the residents "weren't allowed to bury Confederate bodies in the cemeteries" (which makes no sense to me), so the dead brought in on boxcars & who died in the hospitals were "buried in the streets" 3/
all over town & people were still accidentally disinterring them 50 years later. It certainly speaks to the chaos in the aftermath of battle.
Oh: the construction crews who accidentally exhumed the bodies were Black men. Will just leave that there. 4/end
Oh: the construction crews who accidentally exhumed the bodies were Black men. Will just leave that there. 4/end
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