The October 1st Nashville Tennessean reported that the son of a Union soldier who fought at Franklin and the son of a Confederate soldier who fought at Gettysburg will meet at the October 10th funeral of a Union soldier.
Harold Becker, 91, of Rockford, Michigan, whose father Charles Conrad Becker fought at Franklin with the 128th Indiana and Jim F. Brown, Sr., 97, of Knoxville, whose father was in the 8th Georgia, will be at the ceremony honoring the unknown Union soldier.
Part of a skeleton was found along with a bullet, brass buttons and a glass bead were accidentally unearthed by a construction crew at the site of the Battle of Franklin which was fought November 39, 1864.
The service will be at St. Paul's Episcopalian Church October 10th and the burial service at Rest Haven Cemetery in Franklin.
The Blue and the Gray Together. --Old B-Runner
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