Well, there are about 1500 still unaccounted for Confederate casualties. I think I read somewhere (maybe Greg Coco said it) that there are likely still at least 1000 Confederate unmarked graves. Maybe some Union as well. Consider the ones who fell in woodlots or out-of-the-way places and never found. Many bodies were attacked by roving hogs and other wildlife, so that would leave remains. Any undiscovered trench and individual graves could be revealed by those airplane fly-overs being conducted over the battlefield area that we discussed last year, so the results of that could be rather revealing.
J.D.

Maybe some of those Ghosts on the Gettysburg Battlefield that we hear about from time to time could show us where some of those undiscovered graves are located.
Seriously though, besides the dead who's graves were never discovered, there are those who were unfortunate enough to be too close to a canister blast, or just happened to be on the spot where a case shot exploded - probably very little left to bury in those cases.
Bill N-T

• RE: The dead at Gettysburg - Barb 07/21/2000 09:34:35 EDT (1)