Remains of Indiana Civil War vets headed to Arlington National Cemetery

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http://www.indystar.com/article/20130504/NEWS/305040051/Remains-Indiana-Civil-War-vets-headed-Arlington-National-Cemetery

After more than 100 years, the unclaimed remains of two Civil War veterans from Indiana will find their way to a final resting place this week in the nation’s capital.

The cremated remains of Lt. Zuinglius K. McCormack and Pvt. Lycurgus McCormack, brothers who served in the Civil War, will be transported to Arlington National Cemetery following a memorial service in Indianapolis on Tuesday.

A nonprofit veterans group called the Missing in America Project, in collaboration with the American Legion, recovered the remains from the unclaimed storage vaults of Indianapolis-based Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Centers. The company operated the state’s first crematory, where Zuinglius and Lycurgus were cremated in 1908 and 1912, respectively.

The two men came from a family with deep Hoosier roots. Their great grandfather was one of the first settlers in the Connersville area, and their grandfather was one of the first settlers to arrive in Indianapolis, said Rick France of the Genealogical Society of Marion County.

The thanks of a grateful Republic go with you, soldiers.

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1. I love these kinds of stories.

I know the general location of a lone grave of a Union soldier buried in an (now) almost abandoned family cemetery. He was shot killed and buried in 1863 within sight of the cemetery. In the last 30 years we have put flags on his grave a couple times. All that remains is a solitary government head stone. He was buried without a coffin so odds are there are no remains otherwise he should probably have been sent to Arlington. Since my Mother in Law passed away I have forgotten exactly how to get to the cemetery.

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2. Whereabouts (roughly) is that?

Just curious.

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3. South Central Missouri.

My suspicion is my wife's family members did the bushwhacking but saw to it he got a government headstone.

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4. Heh. Bushwack v. Jayhawk was serious no-holds-barred guerrilla warfare

The US hasn't seen that shit before or since, thank God.

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5. I'll take the unusual motion of kicking this

Just once