Libraries can be very informative!

[Rptyd]

Found this at a local library for a small community back in the woods.
I'm guessing there was no rappellers to help w/ that Christian burial.
Folks always say if you find a body you should report it but what if they're
already known about and abandoned?

 

[Kentucky Kache]

You're not gonna tell us the County?

 

[Rptyd]

You're not gonna tell us the County?

Ahhh, you're making me feel bad, lol...
It's about 80 miles S. of Lexington, in the usual 'round about way that these roads make you go.

 

[mlayers]

Headed south of Lexington still don't tell us what town it was.....Matt

 

[Rptyd]

Actually mlayers, it's not in a town lol. It's on the border of Estill and Lee. No one out there seems to know anything about it though so it's going to be touch and go.

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

I am assuming that your thoughts are that the bodies are still where they landed and all the artifacts that they had with them are also where they landed.

Very interesting. Let us know if you manage to find their final resting place. Do you intend to make arrangements to have any remains properly buried? That is assuming any are still there.

Would be very exciting if you could locate the names of the prisoners and contact their families or at least notify someone (United Daughters of the Confederacy General Organization) that you have located some missing soldiers from the war.

I am not suggesting that you give up your treasure finds, just to do the right thing concerning the soldiers remains, if any are found.

Ray S

 

[Rptyd]

I am assuming that your thoughts are that the bodies are still where they landed and all the artifacts that they had with them are also where they landed.

Very interesting. Let us know if you manage to find their final resting place. Do you intend to make arrangements to have any remains properly buried? That is assuming any are still there.

Would be very exciting if you could locate the names of the prisoners and contact their families or at least notify someone (United Daughters of the Confederacy General Organization) that you have located some missing soldiers from the war.

I am not suggesting that you give up your treasure finds, just to do the right thing concerning the soldiers remains, if any are found.

Ray S


Actually my thoughts were running in a similar direction. I find it sad that no one had the motivation to retrieve these guys after such a travesty. This particular incident had nothing to do w/ war, it was murder. The war had already concluded and it was a show of good faith on their part to turn themselves over to someone they considered an enemy. Can you imagine how many similar occurrences happened throughout the turn of the States with no record? Unfortunately I probably will not be able to find anything useful for Identification but there may be records of missing individuals at the end of the war that were part of the local occupation of confederates.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

More than likely it has become a local legend. Some of the old folks can probably tell you stories they have heard, likely even the location.

 

[Rptyd]

More than likely it has become a local legend. Some of the old folks can probably tell you stories they have heard, likely even the location.

I think this is one they wanted to bury, no one around the area is familiar with it at all.......

 

[ivan salis]

it was actions like this that forced some ex rebs into a life of "crime" -- when they surrendered often they were abused , beaten or mistreated --they by law could not hold "important" jobs -- like mayor, sherriff, or preacher ---thus they could not be a "leader" of any kind in the area -- only dumb "grunt" labor --the carpet baggers came exploiting them --since us govt forces now "demanded" payment right away of all "back taxes" due to the start of the war in confederate areas --- in US cash or your farm would be sold for "taxes' ---many southerners had to cut deals with the carpet baggers to be co owners or worse their farms were sold to the carpet baggers for "taxes" and they were turned into "share croppers" upon their "past owned" land.

yes I love old books --so full of old knowledge , such a event was clearly quite shameful and wrong as the "angry" victors of the war due to the deep hatred that the war caused between the sides often mistreated the southeners -- often these types of acts were not properly punished-- it would often be said they "jumped" over the cliff or were shot while trying to escape and were buried --clearly the men ordered to do this had to know this was a "illegal" order and act to do.-- these facts most likely came out much later on ( most likely a death bed confession of one of the killers) as all the men involved would be judged "guilty" but by military "rules" of the day they had to follow their officers orders , so they would say -- "we were just following orders" ---like many a nazi soldier later on said (but it was said that was not a valid "excuse" since they knew the order was "illegal and thus invalid" all along)

 

[Rptyd]

Hmmm, retrieving these remains certainly won't right the wrong to the folks but it would sure make me feel better,

I'll post if I find anything down the cliff. I've got in narrowed down to 2 possibles, I had to find some of the old maps before the turn of the century because the modern roadways don't always follow the old.

 

[ivan salis]

finding the body so it can have a "proper burial" should earn a you quite a few "good karma" points and maybe a bit of "fame" as a decent person as well.

 

[Rptyd]

finding the body so it can have a "proper burial" should earn a you quite a few "good karma" points and maybe a bit of "fame" as a decent person as well.

Hopefully my Karma is on the upswing but I think I can do w/o the fame thing.

But if I am successful, it'll be "just another MD'er doing the job!(that no one else wanted to do for a century )"