Civil War soldiers buried as 'unknowns' in Ga. identified

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) A historian says the names of 350 unknown soldiers from the American Civil War will be added to a memorial at a Georgia cemetery after hospital records from the era were used to identify them. <br /> <br /> The Marietta Daily Journal reports that historian Brad Quinlin worked with Betty Hunter, president of the Marietta Confederate Cemetery Foundation, to identify the soldiers. <br /> <br /> Quinlin said he found names of Confederate soldiers from hospital records at five universities, including Emory University, Duke University, and state universities in Tennessee, Texas and North Carolina. <br /> <br /> He said the research involved 45,000 pages of hospital records kept by Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, a general surgeon in charge of Confederate hospitals in Georgia from 1863-1964. <br /> <br /> Documents were searched for soldiers sent to Marietta hospitals during the war. <br />

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