Gale F. Red of the Illinois Division of the SCV, (Lt. George Dixon Camp) has compiled a Roll of Honor of Confederate Veterans Buried in Illinois. Ten cemeteries are listed for Champaign County alone and the names, rank, unit, birth and death of 13 Confederates buried there are given. The Vermilion County had six Confederates buried in six cemeteries.
No Confederate veterans are known to be buried in DeKalb, Henderson, mason, Monroe, Putnam and Wabash counties, but all the rest have at least one.
These veterans, of course, were buried in Illinois after the war and that means that a lot of them moved here after their service.
I am familiar with Mr. Red's work and that is quite impressive.
--Old Secesh
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