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tion requested that each camp begin a graves registration effort for their respective county which is what set Godfrey on his quest.
“Even after four or five trips to a cemetery,” says Godfrey, “I may see another stone that belongs to a, Confederate Veteran.”
He explains that sometimes poverty played a role in obscuring a veteran’s grave.
“In many instances, the wife of a Confederate soldier died before the veteran. When the husband died, a second marker was not erected, or the wife’s stone was not inscribed with the husband’s information. If I can find a gravestone for the wife, but not the husband, I can usually locate the veteran’s grave with copper wires, using them as a dowser would use them.”
Godfrey has compiled an impressive database of the 1,300 Confederate soldiers buried in Fauquier County.
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