Note: This is the program from the reinterment of the Confederate dead that fell at Glorieta. There are some very interesting and very moving pieces scattered throughout. The poem at the end is very moving and applies to all that fell no matter what flag they flew under.
There is also a press release attached that has interesting information on the history and the discovery of the grave and other facts and details. well worth browsing through.
Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony
Remembering the
Battle of Glorieta Pass
Santa Fe National Cemetery
501 N. Guadalupe Street
Santa FE, New Mexico 87504
Sunday, April 25, 1993 - Funeral Service
Monday, April 26, 1993 - Dedication Ceremony
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
NATIONAL CEMETERY SYSTEM
In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln's signature enacted a law 'authorizing
the establishment of national cemeteries ". . . for the soldiers who shall die in the service of the
country." Fourteen cemeteries were established in 1862 pursuant to this legislation.
Immediately following the cessation of hostilities in 1865, Department of War (now Defense)
search and recovery teams visited hundreds of battlefields, churchyards, and other locations
where hasty combat interments had been made. By 1870, nearly 300,000 Union soldiers were
reinterred in 73 national cemeteries established and maintained by the Army. Tragically,
approximately 143,000 of them were unknown.
The National Cemetery System has undergone many changes since that time. In 1873 eligibility
for burial in a national cemetery was extended to "honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or
marines" who served during the Civil War. That same year, the federal government adopted
standard headstones to identify those buried within the system. Subsequent action added a
number of post cemeteries that predated the Civil War and included the remains of dependents
of soldiers stationed along the western frontier. In 1933, an executive order authorized the
transfer of several cemeteries to the Department of the Interior, to be maintained by the National
Park Service as memorials to the dead of battles such as Gettysburg and Antietam.
In 1973, one hundred years after the nation extended eligibility for burial to honorable
discharged Union veterans, Public Law 93-43 authorized the transfer of 82 national cemeteries
from the Department of the Army to the Veterans Administration (now the Department of
Veterans Affairs). This action combined 82 Army national cemeteries with 21 veteran
cemeteries already under VA's jurisdiction. With the addition of new cemeteries, the VA system
now comprises 114 national cemeteries. The Department of the Army still administers two
national cemeteries (including Arlington National Cemetery). The Department of the Interior
administers 14, for a grand total of 130 national cemeteries on foreign soil for American war
dead, primarily from the two world wars.
The National Cemetery System had made great progress in fulfilling its mission to the men and
women who served in the Armed Forces. Nevertheless, with nearly 27 million living veterans
much remains to be done. Where land is available at established cemeteries, it is developed to
yield additional grave sites. Donations and transfers of land to some cemeteries are providing
more grave sites. VA provides one-half the cost to establish, enlarge or improve state veterans
cemeteries.
Of the 114 VA national cemeteries, 53 are closed, having reached capacity for casket burials.
Most of these can accept cremation burials, however, and all of them can inter the spouse or
eligible children of a family member already buried. Another 13 national cemeteries would close by the year 2000. Efforts are underway for possible new
cemetery development in nine locations: Chicago, Seattle, Albany (N.Y.),Cleveland1 Dallas,
Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Miami.
Burial in a national cemetery is open to all members of the Armed Forces and veterans
discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, as well as their spouses, unremarried
widow or widower, minor children and, under certain conditions, unmarried adult children. The
first decedent to be buried need not be the veteran. Also eligible for burial are members of the
reserve component of the Armed Forces, the Army and Air National Guard, and the Reserve
Officers Training Corps who die while on active duty for training or performing full-time
service.
SANTA FE NATIONAL CEMETERY HISTORY
With the close of the Civil War, action was taken by the United States to establish a burial
ground in the vicinity of Santa Fe for reinterment of the remains of those Union soldiers who
died during the brief period of Civil War military activity within the territory of New Mexico.
The site initially chosen for cemeterial purposes was less than a third of an acre in extent, and
was located about a quarter of a mile west of the town of Santa Fe. This property, now included
within the confines of the present Santa Fe National Cemetery, is presently within the city limits
of Santa Fe. Title to the property was then in the name of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa
Fe, and on 2 July 1870, Bishop John 8. Lamy donated and conveyed the land to the United States
for use as a military cemetery. In October 1875, an additional parcel of land containing 1.95
acres and adjoining the first tract was purchased from the Diocese of New Mexico. The
cemetery area was then known as the Santa Fe National Cemetery having been designated a
national cemetery of the fourth class pursuant to General Orders No. 48, the Adjutant General's
Office, on 6 April 1875. However, this designation was not of long duration. The War
Department on 1 July 1876, decided that for economy reasons the cemetery should be
maintained as the Fort Marcy military base cemetery and the national cemetery superintendent
appointed in 1875 was transferred to the Mound City National Cemetery in Illinois. In 1892
pursuant to General Orders No. 62, the Adjutant General's Office on 10 September again
designated the cemetery as the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
This site occupies 40 acres of land. An additional 35 acres adjacent to the cemetery will be
developed and should yield grave space until approximately the year 2020. Initial interments at
the cemetery site were the remains of 265 United States soldiers from the battlefields of
Glorieta, Koslouskys and old Fort Marcy, which was the site of General Stephen Kearny's camp
in 1847. Subsequent to its second designation in 1892 as a national cemetery, Santa Fe National
Cemetery was chosen as the final resting place for the mortal remains of many soldiers who had
served and died at the lonely outposts of the southwestern frontier. Remains from the post
cemeteries at Fort Apache and Fort Grant, Arizona; Fort Hatch and Fort Wingate, New Mexico;
and Fort Duchesne, Utah are reinterred in this cemetery.
Santa Fe National Cemetery is also the burial place of seven holders of Congressional Medal of
Honor whose surnames are a cross section of New Mexico heritage: Yuma Indian and Army
Scout Sgt. Y. B. Rowdy, Indian Wars Army Cavalryman PA. Edwin L. Elwood, World War I
Navy CWT Edward A. CI)ary, Indian Wars Army CpI Jacob Guenther, World War II Marine LT.
Alexander Bonnyman Jr., World War II Army PFC Jose F. Valdez and Vietnam Army Sp/4
Daniel D. Fernandez.
Other notable burials include: Governor Charles Bent, first American governor of the Territory
of New Mexico, were among 47 removed in 1895 from the old Masonic Cemetery in Santa Fe to
the national cemetery. Governor Bent was killed on 19 January 1847, in an Indian uprising at
Taos.
Also buried here is Major General Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War in the cabinet of President
Herbert Hoover. He served with distinction in World War I and World War Il, and as United
States Ambassador to China during the period of 1944-1945. General Hurley died on 30 July
1963, and was interred with full military honors in Section "5", Grave 149, on 2 August 1963.
The cemetery is also the burial place of Oliver LaFarge whose book "Laughing Boy", a story of
an Indian youth caught between tribe's traditional life and the forces of modern society, won the
Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1930. He was the author of many books and articles concerning
the American Indian, and was a special friend and champion of the Navajo Indians in New
Mexico and Arizona. Mr. LaFarge served as a Lt. Col. with the Army Air Force during World
War Il. He died on 2 August 1963, and was interred in Grave 300, Section 0, on 5August1963.
Also buried at the Santa Fe National Cemetery is Pvt. Dennis O'Leary, U. 5. Army. He died at
Fort Wingate in New Mexico on April 1,1901. He was nearing his twenty-fourth birthday. Not a
particularly remarkable event on the surface, but in fact there are aspects of his death noteworthy
ninety two years later. For one thing, Pvt. O'Leary carved his own tombstone.
The remains of five Confederate soldiers who died in April 1862, were also among those
removed from the Masonic Cemetery to Santa Fe National Cemetery. These onetime members
of the Armed Forces of the Confederacy--Captain Isacc Adair, 7th Texas Cavalry; Thomas Cater
and William Ohram, Texas Rangers; Private Hugh Harris, 7th Texas Cavalry; and Private Jesse
W. Jones, 4th Texas Cavalry--are now interred in Section "K" of Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Another Confederate soldier, John H. Bencke, Pvt., 35 Bn Virginia Cavalry, CSA, who died of
natural causes, 7 August 1879, is also buried in Section "K"
As of February 1993, approximately twenty-three thousand two-hundred sixty one (23,261)
interments have been made in Santa Fe National Cemetery. More than 500 interments in the
cemetery are unknowns.
Here, too, are the graves of many who responded to their nation's call in the Spanish-American
war, World War I, World War Il, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and Peace time. Seventeen
special burial sites in the cemetery mark the final resting place of fifty-two World War II
casualties. For these men, the circumstances of death were such that identification of their
remains for individual burials could not be made. They now rest in group burial sites with their
comrades in arms who perished with them. Ten of the group burial sites each mark the interment
of two decedents. Three groups are of four decedents. Two sites each mark the burial place of
three decedents. One site marks a group burial of five, and another of nine members of the
Armed Forces who gave their lives in the service of their country.
Today we honor the dead from the Battle of Glorieta Pass. These soldiers who died at Glorieta,
all members of the 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas Regiments, were buried in a mass grave at the
battlesite about 15 miles south and east of Santa Fe. The exact location remained unknown until
1987 when a landowner accidentally uncovered their grave and another single grave nearby as he
dug a foundation trench. He called the Museum of New Mexico, and what archaeologists found
agreed with diaries, letters and reports written shortly after the battle: the single grave contained
an officer, Major John 5. Shropshire of the 5th Texas Regiment, who was reinterred near his
parents in a cemetery in Valley Forge, Kentucky, in 1991; the mass grave held the remains of
about 30 enlisted men.
The U. 5. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery System, will formally dedicate a
bronze tablet with the name and rank of 31 Confederate Soldiers who died in the Battle of
Glorieta Pass. Moreover, the confederate headstones for Pvt. Ebineezer Hanna and Pvt. J. 5. L.
Cotton who were buried in separate graves at the Santa Fe National Cemetery, will also be
unveiled.
Sunday, April 25
9:00 a.m.
Morning assembly at Museum of New Mexico's Palace of the Governors for procession to
Rosario Chapel
10:00 a.m.
Church Service at Rosario Chapel
10:30 a.m.
Procession to National Cemetery
11:00 a.m.
Grave site service
Lowering of coffins by reenactors
Grave site Prayer
Eulogy by Tom Livesay,
Director, Museum of New Mexico
Rifle Squad Salute
Taps and Echo Taps
HEADSTONE AND MONUMENT INSCRIPTION
Headstones
Ebineezer Hanna
Pvt CoC
4th Tx Regt
CSA
Mar 28 1862
Battle of
Glorieta Pass
JSL Cotton
Pvt Co E
4th Tx Regt
C SA
Mar 28 1862
Battle of
Glorieta Pass
Monument
Thirty-four Confederate Soldiers (ranging in age from 17 to 42) of the 4th, 5th Regiments of the
Texas Mounted Volunteers were killed or died as a result of wounds during the Battle of
Glorieta Pass, March 28,1862.
The remains of thirty-one soldiers were originally interred in a mass grave on the New Mexico
Battlefield at Glorieta Pass. After discovery of this grave on June 23,1987, three soldiers were
identified and reinterred in separate graves.
This monument honors the twenty-eight Confederate Soldiers who were reinterred here on April
25,1993, and three others whose burial site remains known only to God.
FARRIER JOSEPH G H ABLE
PVT RICHARD ALDAY
PVT REUBEN F BENTLEY
PVT WILLIAM BOOKER
PVT EDWARD T BURROWES
PVT EVERETT C FOLEY
PVT CHRISTOPH GOLLMER
1ST CORP BENJAMIN G GREELY
PVT AUGUST HABERMANN
PVT PETER HAIL
PVT ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY
PVT JACOB HENSON
PVT F J HOPKINS
PVT AUGUST JUHL
CORP WILLIAM LANGSTON
PVT JAMES McCORD
PVT WILLIAM McCORMICK
2ND SERG JOHN H McKNIGHT
BLACKSMITH JAMES MANUS
2ND SERG STEPHEN MARBACH
PVT JOHN R MARTIN
PVT WILLIAM T PARSONS
PVT FRITZ SCHAEFER
5TH SERG OTTO SCHROEDER
PVT E R SLAUGHTER
PVT JAMES R STEVENS
PVT BURTON R STONE
PVT WILLIAM STRAUGHN
BUGLER G N TAYLOR
PVT ROBERT P WALKER
5TH SERG THOMAS D WILSON
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY
CEREMONY PROGRAM
Remembering the Battle
of Glodeta Pass
SANTA FE NATIONAL CEMETERY
Monday, April 26, 1993
10:00 A.M.
Musical Prelude
44th Army Band
N.M. Army National Guard
Assembly
Bugler
Welcome
Ms. Gloria C. Gamez,
Director Santa Fe National Cemetery
Opening
Mr. Mike Cody, Col., USA (Ret) Master of Ceremonies
Presentation of Colors
Confederate Reenactors
Invocation
Father Arthur Jakobiak, Lt. Col., USAF, (Ret)
Lords Prayer
Vocalist: Consuelo Chavez
Pledge of Allegiance
Mr. Hugh Formhals, Cmdr.
Scurry Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans
National Anthem
Vocalist: Consuelo Chavez
Introduction of DistinguIshed Guests
Mr. Mike Cody, MC
Remarks
Ms. Sherry Davis, President Texas Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Remarks
Governor Bruce King
Governor of New Mexico
Featured Speaker
The Honorable Roger Rapp
Acting Director, National Cemetery System
Keynote Speaker
Mr. Edwin C. Bearss, Historian National Park Service
Necrology
Robert L. Hawkins 11, Commander-in-Chief Sons of Confederate Veterans
Unveiling of Headstones
Governor King and Mr. Rapp
Unveiling of Memorial Marker
Governor King and Mr. Rapp
Rifle Squad Salute
Confederate Reenactors
Taps & Echo
SSGT Kenneth Tuttle, NMANG
SFC Donald Luna, NMANG
Benediction
Reverend Gerald D. Gray
Retiring of Colors
Confederate Reenactors
Closing
Mr. Mike Cody, MC
Exit Music & Music Medley
44th Army Band
THE BATTLE OF GLORIETA PASS
For the exhausted Texas regiments who carried the Confederate standard to Glorieta Pass, the
morning of March 28, 1862, began in doubt.
Two days earlier, advance Confederate forces had met their first defeat in New Mexico when
they tangled with a company of 1st Regiment Colorado Volunteer Infantry at Apache Canyon.
Their march up the Rio Grande Valley from Texas toward Colorado until then was successful:
Mesilla, Fort Fillmore, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe came easily under their domain; the Battle of
Valverde on February 21 was considered a Confederate victory. All was accomplished despite
harsh weather and marching conditions that left the men hungry and homesick.
By sundown on March 28, the Texans, who had battled Union troops (including New Mexico
troops) at Pigeon's Ranch just east of Glorieta Pass, believed they had won; the field was theirs
after a long day of intense combat. They learned later that Union soldiers guided by Lt. Col.
Manuel Chaves, a New Mexican familiar with the area, had destroyed the Confederates' supply
wagons just a few miles away.
Unable to give their fallen companions the prescribed Confederate burial, the Texans placed all
but one in a common grave. Major John Shropshire, too tall for the coffins designated for
officers, was buried separately in a nearby grave.
B. H. Tyler, of Roscoe, Texas, recalled later, "And soon we went about gathering up our dead
and putting them away, which we did the best we could. We dug a hole large enough for them
and laid them two deep and spread one layer of blankets over them and filled in on them with
dirt. it was bad, but the best we could do."*
After a few days' rest in Santa Fe, the difficulty of replenishing their supplies convinced the
Confederates to abandon their New Mexico campaign, and they retreated to Texas.
The Battle of Glorieta Pass marked the furthest extent of the Confederate advance in the west.
* Reminiscences Of The Boys in Gray 1861-1865,
compiled by Miss Maxine Yeary McGregor; Texas. Morningside 1986.
JOHNNY REB
by Bell L Wiley
". The average Rebel private belonged to no special category. He was in most respects an
ordinary person. He came from a middle-class rural society, made up large of non-slaveholders,
and he exemplified both the defects and the virtues of that background. He was lacking in polish,
in perspective, and in tolerance, but he was respectable, sturdy, and independent.
"He was comparatively young, and more than likely unmarried. He went to war with a
lightheartedness born of detachment and of faith in a swift victory. His morale wavered with the
realization that the conflict was to be long and hard. He was nostalgic and war-weary. He felt the
blighting hand of sickness, and it was then that his spirit sank to its lowest ebb. His craving for
diversion caused him to turn to gambling and he indulged himself now and then in a bit of
swearing. But his tendency to give way to such irregularities was likely to be curbed by his deep-seated conventionality or by religious revivals.
"He complained of the shortcomings of officers, the scantiness of clothing, the inadequacy of
rations, the multiplicity of pests and numerous other trials that beset him, but there was little
depth to his complaints, and his cheerfulness outweighed his dejection. Adaptability and good
nature, in fact, were among his most characteristic qualities. He was a gregarious creature, and
his attachment to close associates was genuine.
"He had a streak of individuality and of irresponsibility that made him a trial to officers during
periods of inactivity. But on the battlefield he rose to supreme heights of soldierhood. He was
not immune to panic, nor even to cowardice, but few if any soldiers have had more than he of
elan, of determination, of perseverance, and of the sheer courage which it takes to stand in the
face of withering fire.
"He was far from perfect, but his achievement against odds in scores of desperate battles through
four years of war is an irrefutable evidence of his prowess and an eternal monument to his
greatness as a fighting man."
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Santa Fe National Cemetery Staff
44th Army Band, New Mexico National Guard
Museum of New Mexico
Reenactors, Sons of Confederate Veterans
National cemetery System,
LI. 5. Department of Veterans Affairs
Santa Fe Police Department
City of Santa Fe
Albuquerque Carriage Association
WITH THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO:
Ron Lopez, Public Affairs Officer
Albuquerque Veterans Affairs Hospital
Thomas A. Livesay, Director
Museum of New Mexico
Beverly Becker, Director of Marketing and Communications
Museum of New Mexico
Tim Maxwell, Director, Office -of Archeological Studies
Museum of New Mexico
Thomas Chavez, Director
Palace of the Governors
Mayor Sam Pick
City of Santa Fe
Hugh Formhals, Chairman
Glorieta Pass Committee
Earl Mount, Reenactor Coordinator
Glorieta Pass Committee
Stephen C. Dubinsky, Reenactor Coordinator
Glorieta Pass Committee
Bryan and Patricia Lappe
New Mexioo Carriage Association
Neil Mangum, Chief, Division of History
National Park Service
Dale Kennedy, Chief, Medical Media
Albuquerque Veterans Affairs Hospital
"DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME"
Do they miss me at home
Do they miss me!
'Twould be an assurance most dear,
To know that this moment some loved one,
Were saying 1 wish he were here,
To feel that the group at the fireside
Were thinking of me as I roam,
Oh yes 'twould be joy beyond measure
To know that they miss me at home.
To know that they miss'd me at home.
When twilight approaches; The season
That ever is sacred to song,
Does some one repeat my name over,
And way, And a chord in; each heart
that awaketh Regret at my wearisome
stay. Regret at my wearisome stay
Do they set me a chair near the table
When ev'ning's home pleasures are nigh,
When the candles are lit in the parlor,
And the stars in the calm azure sky!
And when the "good nights" are repeated,
And all lay them down to Their sleep.
Do they think of the absent, and waft me
A whispered "good night" while they weep!
Do they miss me at home - do they miss me
At morning, at noon or at night!
And lingers one gloomy shade round them
That only my presence can light!
Are joys less invitingly welcome,
And pleasures less hale than before.
Because one is missed from the circle,
Because I am with them no more!
MUSEUM OF
NEW MEXICO
For Release;
immediately
Feb. 1, 1993
CONTACT: Beverly Becker
505/827-6451
Eve: 505/982-0732
CENTURY'S LARGEST REBURIAL OF CIVIL WAR DEAD SLATED
Battle of Glorieta Dead Receive Confederate Honors
On Sunday, April 25, the Museum of New Mexico turns over to the Veterans Administration the remains of 30 Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Glorieta on March 28, 1862, and excavated by the Museum of New Mexico from a Civil War battlefield grave in June 1987.
When the VA reinters the remalns at the Santa Fe National Cemetery, it will be the la:gest reburial of Civil War dead in this century.
To commemorate the historic occasion, the VA and the Albuquerque chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will conduct the 10 a.m. funeral with full Confederate military honors.
Sunday's funeral and procession are part of a weekend of events including a dedication of the Confederates' headstone on Monday, April 26, Confederate Memorial Day, and a weekend encampment by Civil War re-enactors at the Museum of New Mexico's Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. The Museum tentatively plans a panel discussion on Saturday evening with historians and archaeologists to summarize what they have learned from this important discovery and the subsequent research. Culmination of Historic Events
On March 28, 1862, solders from the 4th, 5th and 7th Texas Mounted Volunteers fought Union troops from Colorado at Glorieta Pass, N.M., 15 miles south of Santa Fe. The battle capped the Confederates' five month march from San Antonio under of Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley up the Rio Grande Valley to Northern New Mexico.
Historical interpretations sometimes differ over which side won the battle, but Union scouts burned the Confederate supply wagons while the troops were fighting, and the beleaguered, unsupplied Confederates were forced to retreat to Texas.
Because this battle cut short the Civil War in the West, specifically Sibley's campaign to lead troops through New Mexico to Colorado and eventually to California, the Glorieta engagement is often referred to as the Gettysburg of the West.
Mass Grave Discovered
According to historic records, on March 29 the Texas Volunteers buried 34 of their dead on the battlefield.
In June 1987, the graves -- long searched for by historians -- were discovered by a backhoe driver trenching a foundation; it was one of the larger discoveries of a Civil War battlefield grave in the 20th century.
A mass grave holding the remains of 30 soldiers lay offly a few feet from a single grave holding Major John Shropshire. Called to the site immediately, Museum of New Mexico archaeologists recovered a total of 31 sets of remains. The discrepancy between historic accounts of 34 dead and the number of remains recovered is currently unresolved.
In September 1988, after debate over the possible return of the remains to Texas, the Regents of the Museum of New Mexico voted to rebury the men at the National Cemetery unless legitimate descendants wished otherwise, or a National Historic Battlefield at Glorieta was created to incorporate a gravesite.
In January 1993, the Regents agreed that the future of such a Glorieta monument was still undetermined, and the time had come to turn the remains over to the Veterans Administration for reburial.
Said Thomas AL Livesay, director of the Museum, "At this point, the Museum's concern is that these men be buried with the honors they missed in 1862, when they were wrapped in blankets and carefully laid to rest by their comrades."
Memorial Events
Working together on the weekend events, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, officials at the VA in Santa Fe and Washington, D.C., and curators and archaeologists from the Museum will offer educational programs relevant to this little-known side of the War Between The States.
Part of the SCV encampment in the historic courtyard of the Palace of the Governors, America's oldest public building, will involve about 50 re-enactors with historic costume and equipage. Public visitors to the Palace will notice that the army of the Texas Mounted Volunteers was self- supplied; Confederate uniforms, arms and supplies were scarce, and volunteers brought their own guns, horses, and even food.
The April 25 reburial includes two pine coffins for Privates Ebineezer Hanna, 17, and S. L. Cotton, 20, who were identified through forensics research and evidence. (See background) A steel burial vault will hold the remains of 28 other. (In May 1990 The International Society of Shropshires reburied Maj. Shropshire's remains adjacent to the graves of his parents in Kentucky.)
The SCV is coordinating the details of the funeral procession and service according to the 1863 "Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States," as issued by James A Seddon, Secretary of War. The public may pay its respects during a lying-in-state on Sat, April 24, from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. at the Palace of the Governors' new history library at 120 Washington Ave. in Santa Fe. The SCV will provide a 24-hour Honor Guard for that period.
Sunday morning's funeral procession leaves the Palace of the Governors at 9 a.m. with the coffins and vault transported by mule or horse-drawn wagons and accompanied by uniformed pallbearers and escorts, and a flag escort with the Stars and Stripes along with the Texas and New Mexico state flags. Organizers anticipate the funeral procession will include as many as 100 SCV members and Civil War re-enactors from around the country. Approximately 30 flag bearers will carry the various flags of the Confederate nation and states.
The procession will march, as stipulated in the 1863 Regulations "in slow time to solemn music," provided by drummers. Once at the cemetery, a brief service in Rosario Chapel precedes the interment and appropriate military salutes--including echo taps and an artillery salute.
On Monday, April 26, Confederate Memorial Day, the V. A. dedicates the grave markers at 10 a.m. The program for speakers is being planned.
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