PVT Thomas Milton McGee

This past weekend we had our second CWPPO hunt in Ohio The site of this hunt was in southern Ohio. Our objectives were to find the grave site of the lone CSA soldier that was killed there. Over the years the stories changed and folks thought he was buried in this spot or that spot and on and on. That friday we had a guy with his GPR and he searched the first two grave sites. Nothing went 1.7 miles back up the hollow and jackpot Thomas Milton Mcgee PVT.CO H 2nd CAV CSA is located. All rumors put to rest He is still buried at the original site. The next objective was finding the correct routes that Gen Morgans Raiders took and how the Union countered.
Relics dicovered may prove history wrong on this. We have a lot of relics to go through and to lay them out on maps and then we will see a better picture of what trully happened on July 23 1863
HHj
Corey



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Interesting---keep us posted.

I thought those guys were buried in big Iron Coffins, Surely a detector would pick those up, Or were only officers buried in those. ?

John.

John
Gen Morgan's men left him lay. The locals gave him a burial. They even put up a stone for the poor soldier



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docbars Wrote:
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> John
> Gen Morgan's men left him lay. The locals gave
> him a burial. They even put up a stone for the
> poor soldier

That was not very nice of them, But when you consider that they were dodging Bullets I guess that was a good enough reason and one can only Imagine the horrors they had to endure.

Good luck with the search and don't forget to keep us up to date with your progress,

Thanks for posting about Him.

John.

Nice write up Cory...That was a blast

Bill
It was a blast. I have more info to share ya, I will pm you and Ty