Unknowns, Memorial Day 2023

Port Hudson National Cemetery, Louisiana

The small square markers also mark the graves of unknown soldiers killed during the Battle of Port Hudson in 1863.

[katy]

So many men. So many sad families.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I wonder if DNA testing could solve some of their identity issues- not that I'd want to disturb their graves- but it's a thought. Like Katy said- so many graves, and so many sad families.