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This information also is being compiled into a Fauquier County Confederate Calendar, a web site and a book. The book will show a thumbnail sketch of the Confederate soldier’s grave stone and, when possible, a photo of the veteran.
What started out as “a simple inventory” for Godfrey “has turned into a work of loving remembrance for our departed Confederate ancestors,” he says.
“Many of the tombstones are being lost to the ravages of time and vandals,” he says. “Many markers in place 50 years ago have been lost to future generations. Photographs of existing gravestones, properly identified and published, should survive many stones in place today.”
For more information about this program or about the Civil War Round Table, contact Rob Sherwood at (540) 987-8596.
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