Whoops they did it again”¦

99.9% surety is that the person beneath the headstone pictured to the right, the Order for which is pictured above, is not the person named because he lived until 1914 and died in California.  Notice the 2nd column from the right where typing spells “U.S. Colored Regiment Infantry.”Â  Neither Milo Palmer nor Jesse Palmer was Colored.  But they were, as always, White Officers in a Colored Regimen.  The Headstone also identifies the buried as a member of CO. C 65 U.S. CLD. INF Curiously Milo Palmer is listed in Civil War records as having been in three different Cavalries and one Infantry.

By TIMOTHY McCALL, Guest Author

Whoops they did it again”¦Over the years, many attempts have been made to identify and place markers on the graves of the veterans buried in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, especially in the 1930s and 1940s. In general, this wasn”'t a difficult task, due to the fact that the original owners, the Layman family, kept extraordinarily good records.… Read the rest “Whoops they did it again”¦”