I was able to read the name on the stone and look him up on the web.
You can read about him here (died in an Iowa POW camp)
<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2881499>
and here as he apparently wrote a book or at least wrote enough about
himself that it was later published.
<http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Story-Soldier-Mississippi-Infantry/dp/0817351574/ref=la_B001KHX1LW_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383414409&sr=1-1>
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/2/2013 1:18 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Hum. That appears to be the battle flag, not the flag of the Confederacy. I
> could accept the latter; but not the former.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Nov 2, 2013, at 11:40 AM, DZDub wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I like the "malice toward none, charity toward all" theme of this:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/99378213@N00/5769180356/
>>
>> When I see Stars & Bars somewhere in Iowa, a meth lab cannot be far away.
>> But as it is in this photo, I revere it, and I'm glad that we are
>> ultimately a country that can contain great differences as well as we do.
>
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