July 26th Chicago Tribune. By Dahleen Glanton.
Private Mark Carr was 19 when he enlisted in the Arny in 1861, and it is likely that his family in Illinois never knew what happened to him.
It turns out that he was killed June 27, 1864, at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, (outside of Atlanta) in an attack n Cheatham Hill. He was officially declared as missing in action. For more than 70 years, he was buried under a marker proclaiming him as "Unknown Union Soldier."
In June, that was changed when Brad Quinlan, a volunteer historian at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, spent five years poring over documents to learn as to the soldier's identity. His body is the only remaining grave.
Now, the search has led to relatives still living in northwest Illinois.
His body was discovered by conservation workers (CCC?) in 1938 at Cheatham Hill.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
