This soldiers grave was reinterred at Jefferson Barraks Cemetery as an unknown soldier of the Civil War, after a flood in 1876 washed away the wooden markers of 470 soldiers graves at Arsenal/Quarantine Island Cemetery in St. Louis, MO, where he was previously buried.
∼PVT, Co A, 35th Iowa Inf
enl 14 Aug 1862 age 31 res Muscatine, POW 12 Jul 1863 Jackson MS died disease; Arsenal Island Cemetery was destroyed by floods the remaining graves removed to Jefferson Barracks National are mostly listed as unknowns
This soldiers grave was reinterred at Jefferson Barraks Cemetery as an unknown soldier of the Civil War, after a flood in 1876 washed away the wooden markers of 470 soldiers graves at Arsenal/Quarantine Island Cemetery in St. Louis, MO, where he was previously buried.
∼PVT, Co A, 35th Iowa Inf
enl 14 Aug 1862 age 31 res Muscatine, POW 12 Jul 1863 Jackson MS died disease; Arsenal Island Cemetery was destroyed by floods the remaining graves removed to Jefferson Barracks National are mostly listed as unknowns
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