BROOKLYN'S GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
Approximately 8,000 Civil War veterans are buried there. The Saturday before May 27, 2011, flags were placed on all 4,500 Civil War veterans buried there, including the graves of 75 Confederates (hopefully it was the Confederate flag).
The first Civil War casualty interred was 12-year-old Clarence McKenzie killed in an accidental shooting in Maryland in 1861. About 200 burials in the cemetery were deaths that occurred in the war. Thosands more died later.
Volunteers and staff have spent decades identifying the Civil War graves and so far have a list of some 4,600.
ALSACE CEMETERY
From the May 27, 2011, Reading (Pa) Eagle.
The Bechtel family plot in the Muklenberg Township cemetery has one grave of a soldier who died at Antietam and another lost a leg at Gettysburg. They fought on two different sides. Richard for the Confederacy and his father Samuel may have fought for that side.
Another soldier, John Keller, enlisted at age 15 and later died at Andersonville.
Sixty-eight Civil War soldiers are buried at the cemetery
Berk County raised 87 companies of troops and 85 companies.
It's a Burying Thing. --Old Secesh
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