We continue to research and now know Shine Marley and William Youngblood are buried here. There are about 155 Confederate Soldiers buried in the cemetery but due to deterioration of the wooden markers and lack of records they are unknown. The names of the soldiers and the reason for their being buried on Mr. Shipp, including letters to the War Records Office, requests for information in the newspapers nationwide, requests for information from other veterans organizations, and trips to Richmond and Washington to view records, were all to no avail. Shipp that the soldiers were from General Bragg's army and that they had died in a nearby hospital. He told the committee and its chairman, J.F. Standifer at his home at Silverdale, between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The veterans, not wishing any comrade to lie neglected, appointed a committee to investigate this situation. Standifer wanted to know why no one was caring for the Confederates on his farm. This letter was in response to articles in the Chattanooga papers about the other places in the city where the Confederates were being buried and who was caring for those cemeteries. Describing an abandoned cemetery on his farm that was said to contain from "75 to 100" Confederate graves. In January 1900, the Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate Veterans Camp at Chattanooga received an important letter from William Standifer. A Condensed History of the Silverdale Confederate Cemetery
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