During the Civil War fallen soldiers were often buried quickly, in the most convenient spot as battles continued and troops moved on. Following the Civil War, many interred in these makeshift resting grounds, in the Mississippi Delta region, were moved to Memphis to be re-interred in a “designated field.” Thus, most of the earliest burials at the Memphis National Cemetery are reinterments rather than original burials. Sadly, the identities of many of these soldiers remain a mystery, like this entire list of UNKNOWN soldiers re-interred here from “a cotton field east of Horn Lake Road, one mile south of M&Tenn Railroad Depot.”
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