Mother: Sarah WOODSIDE |
Married first in Amite, Louisiana, 18 April 1869, ELIZABETH
("LIZZIE") CATHERINE IRWIN (born Amite, Louisiana 24 November
1845; died Clinton, Louisiana 12 January 1879), daughter of
SAMUEL IRWIN and EVELYN, née AVERETTE.
Benjamin Franklin Arbuthnot married second in Covington,
Louisiana, 13 October 1881, JANE AZILIA BEAUCHAMP (born 31
January 1851; died Covington 13 January 1925; buried Roselawn
Cemetery, Baton Rouge)."
NOV 2003 (KRT) ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A bagpiper played "Amazing
Grace" and the bugler played "Taps." Then a group that gathered
here to honor the war dead sang the song known as "Dixie."
On a gray, damp Sunday morning punctuated by bright flashes of
the Confederate flag, visitors to the Rock Island National
Cemetery saw the dedication of its first monument to 1,950
Southern soldiers buried on Arsenal Island.
"I feel it is something that has been long overdue," said
Loretta Finnegan, a member of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy and a coordinator of the event. "This is not about
hatred or bigotry or politics or anything like that. It's about
honoring soldiers, who died lonely and sick after defending
their homes. They never even knew who won the war."
The honored dead were among more than 12,000 Confederate
prisoners held during the Civil War in the Rock Island Prison
Barracks, which opened 140 years ago last month. Many died of
smallpox brought to the prison by the first soldiers to be
incarcerated there. Pneumonia and dysentery were common.
Conditions in the barracks were brutal. Shivering through harsh
winter weather, sleeping three to a bunk in shifts and eating
rations that were minimal at best, imprisoned soldiers found
life could hinge on the mere possession of a wool blanket, a
speaker at the dedication event said. The disease-ridden
facility averaged nearly a hundred deaths a month during its two
years of operation.
The Confederate graves are maintained by the National Cemetery
Administration, but they are located a half-mile down the road
on Arsenal Island from the huge, more popular U.S. national
cemetery. Buried at the larger facility are more than 20,000
U.S. military personnel - and some immediate family members -
from the Union Army in the Civil War to the most recent
veterans.
"We have ceremonies there all the time, but this is the first
time we've ever had anything like (the dedication of a monument)
in our Confederate cemetery," said Richard C. Anderson, director
of the Rock Island National Cemetery facilities. "Sometimes you
get people who want to make an issue of things, and there's been
controversy over the flag and other things, but I thought this
went off well. We're not into rewriting history here."
Finnegan and the Chicago area chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, whose members are descendants of the
Confederate army, navy or civil service, spent three years
raising funds for the 6-foot-high engraved granite memorial to
the dead soldiers, and saw the project through considerable
federal bureaucracy.
"We started our chapter three years ago and, from the start, our
goal was to have some sort of memorial erected at this
cemetery," she said. "That's all this was about."
The Rock Island cemeteries are listed on the National Register
of Historic Places and maintained by the Department of Veterans
Affairs' cemetery administration.
The regulations are strict - and identical - for both
cemeteries. They govern details ranging from the types of plants
that can be left at the individual, uniform headstones to
forbidding anything "degrading to the country." The U.S. flag
flies from the main pole at both cemeteries, and all other flags
- American or otherwise - are forbidden except on Memorial Day
weekend and at special, one-time ceremonies approved in advance.
"We could only carry the Confederate flag at our event and we
were allowed to drape flags over graves, but I was fine with
that," said Finnegan, a native of North Carolina who says her
great-great grandfather and three of his brothers fought for the
South.
The Daughters of the Confederacy submitted the monument's design
and inscription to Anderson for approval. He says he forwarded
it to the Veterans Affairs' general counsel.
"This is more than we'd ordinarily do before approving a group's
plans," Anderson said. "I did it because we'd never had a
Confederate ceremony before, and I wanted to be sure of
everything, but, as far as we're concerned, the group that did
it is a perfectly viable organization with a solid charter."
The monument's wording reads: "In memory of the Confederate
veterans who died at the Rock Island Confederate Prison Camp.
May they never be forgotten. Let no man asperse the memory of
our sacred dead. They were men who died for a cause they
believed was worth fighting for and made the ultimate sacrifice.
Erected by The Seven Confederate Knights' Chapter 2625 (of)
United Daughters of The Confederacy."
Though he had never overseen a Confederate ceremony, Anderson
said he urged the UDC chapter to be as inclusive as they could
with the inscription. He also had the entire ceremony
videotaped. "It's for our archives, because it was so rare at
Rock Island," he said. "I thought it went off really well."
The turnout for the Arsenal Island ceremony was small, but
Finnegan almost seemed relieved over this, noting that
displaying the Confederate flag remains a controversial issue.
The NAACP boycotts the state of South Carolina for flying the
flag over its capitol. Georgia's incorporation of the flag into
its state banner was a major issue in its last gubernatorial
election.
An honor guard of Civil War re-enactors fired three volleys from
"black powder," Civil War-period guns during the ceremony. In a
speech, Gary Corlew of the Sons of Confederate Veterans likened
groups such as his "involved in a great cultural war" to
preserve history.
Terry Henson, an airline mechanic from Indianapolis, learned of
the ceremony through an Internet posting and couldn't resist
attending. His great-great-greatgrandfather, Silas M. Moseley,
is buried on the island and he had never visited the grave.
Henson, a Civil War history buff, said the Illinois facility is
different from others he has visited.
"Here, you've got individually marked graves," Henson said, "and
that, for me, made this a very emotional day. In other
cemeteries I've visited, there were mass graves because all the
bodies were just dumped together, or whatever."
Anderson said the Arsenal Island facility draws history buffs
and occasionally curious relatives interested in genealogy.
"You can't help but be moved by seeing 1,950 graves one after
another, side by side," Anderson said. "As you read the history,
you learn more and gain a lot of respect for the dead."
__ | _James Burton [or Sawyer] ARBUTHNOT _| | (1770 - 1815) m 1795 | | |__ | _William Burton ARBUTHNOT _| | (1798 - 1843) m 1829 | | | __ | | | | |_Catherine WHITE ____________________| | (1775 - 1809) m 1795 | | |__ | | |--Benjamin Franklin ARBUTHNOT C.S.A. | (1841 - 1893) | __ | | | _Thomas WOODSIDE "the Immigrant"_____| | | (1783 - 1830) | | | |__ | | |_Sarah WOODSIDE ___________| (1813 - ....) m 1829 | | __ | | |_____________________________________| | |__
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_____________________________ | _Jordan Efferson BOWLING _| | (1830 - ....) | | |_____________________________ | _George Washington BOWLING _| | (1850 - ....) | | | _James Moses HIGGINBOTHAM Jr_+ | | | (1791 - 1869) m 1833 | |_Margaret HIGGINBOTHAM ___| | (1836 - ....) | | |_Elender James SMITH ________ | (1790 - 1862) m 1833 | |--Charlie Walker BOWLING | (1870 - ....) | _____________________________ | | | __________________________| | | | | | |_____________________________ | | |____________________________| | | _____________________________ | | |__________________________| | |_____________________________
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_Theophilus NORWOOD II_+ | (1725 - 1792) m 1749 _John NORWOOD _______| | (1751 - 1829) m 1774| | |_Margaret DAWSON ______+ | (1725 - 1765) m 1749 _John NORWOOD Jr.______| | (1782 - 1862) m 1805 | | | _Jesse John WARREN ____+ | | | (1729 - 1782) m 1751 | |_Mary Dubose WARREN _| | (1753 - 1831) m 1774| | |_Martha DUBOSE ________+ | (1732 - ....) m 1751 | |--Joseph NORWOOD | (1810 - ....) | _______________________ | | | _John POWELL ________| | | (1752 - 1834) | | | |_______________________ | | |_Catherine Ann POWELL _| (1790 - 1872) m 1805 | | _______________________ | | |_Catherine WILKINS? _| (1760 - ....) | |_______________________
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_William RUSSELL II__+ | (1735 - 1793) m 1755 _Robert Spotswood RUSSELL _| | (1762 - 1842) m 1787 | | |_Tabitha ADAMS ______+ | (1736 - 1776) m 1755 _Thomas A. RUSSELL ___| | (1790 - ....) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Deborah Montgomery ALLEN _| | (1767 - 1842) m 1787 | | |_____________________ | | |--Margaret Tabitha RUSSELL | (1836 - 1899) | _____________________ | | | ___________________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Sarah Lewis GARRARD _| (1800 - ....) | | _____________________ | | |___________________________| | |_____________________
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_Francis WILLIS _______________+ | _Francis WILLIS _____| | (1744 - 1791) | | |_Elizabeth CARTER _____________ | (1725 - 1763) _John WILLIS __________| | (1774 - 1811) m 1804 | | | _______________________________ | | | | |_Elizabeth PERRIN ___| | (1751 - 1791) | | |_______________________________ | | |--John WILLIS | (1806 - ....) | _James MADISON Sr._____________+ | | (1723 - 1801) m 1749 | _Ambrose MADISON ____| | | (1755 - 1793) m 1779| | | |_Eleanor Rose "Nellie" CONWAY _+ | | (1731 - 1829) m 1749 |_Nelly Conway MADISON _| (1785 - 1865) m 1804 | | _Hancock LEE Sr._______________+ | | (1709 - ....) |_Mary Willis LEE ____| (1755 - 1798) m 1779| |_Mary WILLIS __________________+ (1716 - 1766)
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_John WOODSON ______________________+ | (1658 - 1715) m 1679 _Josiah WOODSON _____________| | (1702 - ....) | | |_Judith TARLETON ___________________+ | (1660 - 1714) m 1679 _John WOODSON _______| | (1730 - 1789) m 1751| | | ____________________________________ | | | | |_Mary ROYALL ________________| | (1710 - 1757) | | |____________________________________ | | |--John WOODSON | (1752 - ....) | _William I RANDOLPH "the immigrant"_+ | | (1651 - 1711) m 1678 | _Isham RANDOLPH of Dungeness_| | | (1685 - 1742) m 1718 | | | |_Mary ISHAM ________________________+ | | (1660 - 1735) m 1678 |_Dorothea RANDOLPH __| (1732 - 1794) m 1751| | _Charles ROGERS ____________________+ | | (1660 - ....) |_Jane ROGERS ________________| (1692 - ....) m 1718 | |_Jane LILBURN ______________________+ (1670 - ....)
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