Confederate Cemetery
Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, USA
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During the Civil War, Confederate forces kept an outpost camp at the spring to guard the route to Boggy Depot, which lay some 15 miles to the southwest. In the winter of 1862, Colonel C.L. Dawson's 19th Arkansas Infantry was assigned to help in the building of an earthen works at Fort McCulloch. However, enroute from Forth Smith, Arkansas, to Fort McCulloch, measles swept through the regiment. Some of the men were forced to stop at the Confederate camp that had been established at Middle Boggy.
It was here many of these men died. They were buried in the small cemetery on the north side of the Middle Boggy River. Crude sandstone markers inscribed with the soldier's name, date of death, and the letters "C.S.A." were placed on the graves.
In 1998, through research at the National Archives, members of the Atoka County Historical Society identified several of the soldiers buried here and new headstones were placed alongside the old.
Research continues in the effort to identify all the soldiers who are buried here. Currently, it is not known if any of the men buried here were casualties of the bloody and one-sided Battle of Middle Boggy on February 13, 1864.
During the Civil War, Confederate forces kept an outpost camp at the spring to guard the route to Boggy Depot, which lay some 15 miles to the southwest. In the winter of 1862, Colonel C.L. Dawson's 19th Arkansas Infantry was assigned to help in the building of an earthen works at Fort McCulloch. However, enroute from Forth Smith, Arkansas, to Fort McCulloch, measles swept through the regiment. Some of the men were forced to stop at the Confederate camp that had been established at Middle Boggy.
It was here many of these men died. They were buried in the small cemetery on the north side of the Middle Boggy River. Crude sandstone markers inscribed with the soldier's name, date of death, and the letters "C.S.A." were placed on the graves.
In 1998, through research at the National Archives, members of the Atoka County Historical Society identified several of the soldiers buried here and new headstones were placed alongside the old.
Research continues in the effort to identify all the soldiers who are buried here. Currently, it is not known if any of the men buried here were casualties of the bloody and one-sided Battle of Middle Boggy on February 13, 1864.
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Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, USA
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Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, USA
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 98209
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