Let justice be done on the 150th anniversary

YORK DAILY RECORD
About 150 years after the fact, and just a couple of miles away, in Wrightsville, a crowd gathered to commemorate a Civil War soldier.

According to tradition, he was identified as a Confederate soldier when his body was discovered on the bank of the river.

So we have an unknown enemy soldier, an invader of our soil, who is remembered today with a marker. His kinsmen in uniform blew the head off of a defender and fired on a town full of civilians. On the march, they stole horses, terrorized women and children and destroyed crops.

And then not far away, we have a site where an unknown friendly soldier in blue lost his life in defense of his home and country.

The site where he died, which could be identified within a couple of yards, is forgotten today.

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http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_23012583/jim-mcclure-another-unknown-soldier