Here is one site I was thinking of browsing. They have a free trial of $7.95 I think. If you cancel before the free trial is up you only owe $7.95, but if you don't it's that much each month. They want your credit card number up front.

Here is a link that might be useful: Archives

found this..doesn't mention $$ that i can find...

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/

I have an Ancestry.Com membership. If you want to e-mail the info to me, I will be happy to look it up for you. Sometimes, I really feel that I hit the "jackpot" and at other times there is little available, but I'll try.

I have never once found anything useful on Archives.com that I can't get somewhere else, and I do a lot of genealogy research.

Have you tried FamilySearch.org? https://familysearch.org/search

Another to try is BiliionGraves.com. They have some records that Findagrave doesn't, although there is a lot of overlap. http://billiongraves.com/

Beth

susan, I found the Sons of The Union Veterans in my many hours of searching and with the little bit of info I had there were no results found for my ancestor as far as burial site.

mamatoad - THANK YOU. I would be so appreciative of your help. As soon as I plant some flowers and finish other things outside today, I'll send you an email.

Beth - I hadn't come across the site, Billion Graves. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Schoolhouse, I'm afraid I'm no help. I've photographed a lot of local graves, but I have no resources (other than FindAGrave) for locating one. I didn't even know about Billion Graves--which seems to be overloaded right now, maybe because Beth mentioned it. ;-)

Just a suggestion...look up cemeteries in the area where he died in Louisiana. Try a search for Union Civil war cemeteries.

In those days, especially summer...I doubt they allowed transport of enemy solder's bodies through battle lines.

I think you might want to have this record of that battle.
At then end it does say that Union forces retreated rapidly.
So, dead probably was buried on the spot.

Here is a link that might be useful: story of Battle of Mt Pleasant

Found this link....it would be my first place to look.

Gee, I love genealogy

Here is a link that might be useful: Remains of Mt Pleasant union soldiers

Y'all inspired me. I know all about my mom's side of the family, but not her dad's. I tooled around today and even found relatives. Contacted them and they sent a copy of my great-grandfather's WWI draft card, dated 5 June 1917. How cool is that? Thank you!

monica, I had found lots of info about the Pleasant Hill (not Mt. Pleasant) battle and the hasty retreat but thanks for posting the link - it took me to Alexandria Virginia. I do know that soldiers could be disinterred and reburied in national cemeteries tho. I tried a search of those but found nothing. So many, a little overwhelming to begin with.

My ancestor was a nurse in the regiment hospital at Cape Girardeau in Missouri. He must have gotten sent to Louisiana to the battle at Pleasant Hill (most likely other battles too). There he was killed.

mamatoad, I don't see your email addy on your profile page, but if you want to email me first, mine is there on my page. Thanks.

If he was lucky, his body may have been shipped home for burial. Search newspapers near his hometown starting with his assummed death date. Check to see if there are any genealogical libraries in his home county.

I presume he was a Union soldier which would be in your favor. The union records are more complete than for Confederates. There are records in Washington DC that are accessible to the public. Use google to uncover these.

There may be Iowa state records. Search for these.

There were several mass burials during that war driven by expediency. If he is one of these, his grave site may never be known.

Two years ago, I toured Antetiem and saw the site of a mass burial. During that fight, soildiers were mowed down faster than they could be identified. The attendant crew gave up on regular burial and stacked a line of bodies against a stone wall. They threw maybe a foot of dirt over the bodies to put them on hold for later. A few days after the fighting had stopped and the site secured, attendants began unearthing the bodies atacked against the wall and identifications were made as possible. Not every soldier could be identified. Some identifications were enhanced if a live person could ID the man and vouch it was him. In some cases, the person who could vouch for an identy was also himself in the same pile of dead soldiers.

At first at Antetiem, the attendants tried to separate the Union and Confederate bodies, but as the battle raged on they gave up and piled everyone together. It was a dangerous place for the cleanup crew as well.

When you have exhausted the usual sources, try google to see what it can did up (no pun intended). Try these search strings:

surname, first name, "civil war"

If he was a union soldier, you might include that.

surname, firstname, "civil war", union

If this doesn't uncover anything, try:

"first name last name" "civil war" union

The quotes are important. Phrases inside a quote is treated as one word whcih reduces the number of hits.

If nothing turns up, try variants of his name.

This works fairly well unless your guy has a very common name such as brown, smith, James and John. These names will generate thousands of hits.

Thanks jemdandy - good suggestions. Most I've tried but some I'll keep in mind.

mamtoad - the email message I sent you on May 1st. just bounced back to me as undeliverable. But I noticed that there may have been a typo in your email addy, so I'm going to resend the message.

found this place mentioned...at least 600 memebers are here...wipedia also mentions 3 others..however depending on where he was stationed, (like the deep south) he might be in some obscure plot...

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/keokuk.asp

There is a civil war cemetery on Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, IL. The Arsenal is on an island in the Mississippi River; the main channel is on the Iowa side. A small channel of the river exists on the Illinois side.

A prison camp on the island was used to hold Confederate prisoners. The cemetery has 5000 graves. I do not know how many Union soldiers are buried there, if any. This camp was hit with small pox and other infectious diseases; Many sickened and died.

Prison labor was used to quarry stone and build substantial buildings. When I was there in the 1950s, many of those stone buildings were in use. I do not know if these limestone buildings are still there. I hope so, because they were unique and such is not seen today. These buildiings should be on the National Register. Several of these buildings were 3 stories tall with 3 ft thick walls at the bottom. These were load bearing walls.