Mock Trial to Decide Confederate's Fate

On Feb. 13th this past year, a mock trial was held to determine whether or not a Confederate soldier's remains are buried in the wrong grave. This was put on by the US National Park Service. 

Confederate Sergeant Ivy Ritchie is buried in a Union soldier's grave. The Ivy Ritchie SCV Camp 1734 in Albemarle, NC, contends that his remains were removed from the Appomattox Court House and accidentally buried in a Union cemetery as Sgt. J. Ritchie, Co. H, 14th NY Infantry.

SCV member Jim Harwood, "To know he's laying up there in a Yankee grave just tears me up. He hasn't rested in a hundred years or more."

The park service has refused to exhume his remains, but will hold the mock trial in the pre-Civil War Dinwiddie Court House south of Petersburg to let the SCV group makes its case.

FOLLOW UP: The Camp was found to be correct, but he still is there with the Feds. In Thick With the Yankees. --B-Runner