Thursday, May 17, 2007 Two Unknown U.S. Civil War soldiers to be
re-interred at Battery Robinett Shiloh National Military Park
Superintendent Woody Harrell today announced a special re-
interment ceremony to be held at the Corinth Civil War
Interpretive Center on National Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May
19. The remains of two United States soldiers will be reburied a
short distance from the site of Battery Robinett, in the same
shallow graves where they were discovered in 1999 by National
Park Service archeologists conducting an archeological
investigation prior to construction of the interpretive center.
Partial evidence of these long lost graves had recently come to
light on an 1863 map of Corinth drawn by Private Charles H.
Budd, who prepared the map while stationed in Corinth with the
2nd Iowa Infantry during the Union occupation. Budd’s map
indicated possible graves located a few paces north and west of
the still prominent grave of Confederate Colonel William P.
Rogers of the 2nd Texas Infantry, who was k