Lieutenant Vrooman is buried to-day, with military honors.
Colonel Boyle, with the Eleventh Missouri, turned out and joined in doing honor
to the fallen soldier. Thus another soldier's mound has been reared—another
waymark for the pilgrims of freedom has been built.
SOURCES: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 15-6
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