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Cemetery Transfer Brings Confederate Dead Under Federal Control
In Cincinnati a delegation led by Miss Iva McCarney transfers 604 Confederate officers buried at Johnson Island Cemetery to Captain T. J. McGrath for the federal government. The event signals a possible move to convert the island into a national park and ends a long local guardianship by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and veterans groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Johnson Island Cemetery
Sandusky Bay
Iva McCarney
Paris
Robert Patten Post
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Island Cemetery
T. J. McGrath
Camp Perry
North
McGrath
Augusta
Max Weil
S. Allen Coffing
Charles Fisher
Sandusky
Robert Patton
Albert Sidney Porter
Lakewood
Ohio Department of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Porter
Johnson’s Island
Congress
Great Lakes
United States
John Fmidand
Ivy McCarney
Robert Patton Post
Unitas Daughters of the Confederacy