Civil War burial draws praise and cries of disrespect

Boston Globe

Do the descendants of Confederates from the Civil War care more about their ancestors than Union descendants? One Southerner wonders and has tried to work on burying Massachusetts soldiers in marked graves and identifying them by DNA. A burial for unknowns, though identifiable, will occur 145 years late for "six Union soldiers from Massachusetts killed in battle just days before the famous First Battle of Bull Run in 1861."
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Headline: Civil War burial draws praise and cries of disrespect
Date: June 9, 2006

"They were lost to history, six Union soldiers from Massachusetts killed in battle just days before the famous First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Found in shallow graves in woods in Centreville, Va., the men's remains were traced to the First Massachusetts Infantry, after a decade of painstaking research."
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