ripley rebel
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I couldn't think of a more fitting way to spend memorial day than driving around the battle of Shiloh. While watching the film and then while viewing the battlefield a question popped into my mind and I have been wondering about it since. Were both union and confederate soldiers buried in the same pit or did they bury them separately. The reason I ask is most union soldiers were unearthed and reburied in the us cemetery and the confederates were left in the pits. Grant rejected Beauregard's request to remove the confederates because they had already been buried. It doesn't' really say there were separate pits but how could they tell much later the difference between union and confederate soldiers. Anyone have an answer?