After the battle, other soldiers' bodies were buried right away, but Carr's was overlooked, perhaps an artillery shell through earth over it.
"The day after the battle, they declared a truce because it was June and about 100 degrees outside and the bodies were stinking," said Willie Johnson, the historian of the park. "They buried them right there, and after the war, the U.S. government hired people to recover the bodies and move them to what is now the new national cemetery."
More than 9,000 Union soldiers who died at Kennesaw and the other battles around Atlanta are buried at the nearby Marietta National Cemetery, established in 1866.
Carr was never reburied, probably because he was declared missing in action. He does not have a pension record which indicates that neither his mother or wife applied for one.
Still More to Come. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
