Showing posts with label Exhumations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhumations. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Prohibition

WASHINGTON, May 27 – Notice is given by the War Department, that the further exhumation of the bodies of deceased soldiers in cases where public means of transportation have to be relied on cannot be permitted, and has been prohibited.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 4