| Cemetery Works |
| Boulder, Colorado, USA established 2001 |
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Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veterans Roster
There are 231 American Civil War soldiers and sailors documented to be interred in
Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, USA.Columbia Cemetery are provided on separate webpages. Some quantitative data regarding these veterans include:
- 03 veterans of the New Mexico Campaign (March-November 1862)
- 22 veterans of the "100 day enlistment" 3rd Colorado Cavalry
- Ellet, John A., Colonel
- Ellet, Richard S., Lieut. The Ellet's were brothers and nephews of the Brigade commander, Gen. Alfred W. Ellet. The 1st MMB was an unusual naval unit of the Union Army which operated on the Mississippi River.
- Andros, Lewis, 73th USC INF, Pvt.
- Hall, James H., 83th USC INF, Pvt. - Hathaway, Mark M., 47th USC INF, Capt. - Wallace, Henry, 79th USC INF, Pvt.
- Thomas Jones
- Henry E. Meyring; a seaman aboard the USS Brooklyn Further, the correspondence between the number of veterans and the State or Organization for which they served is tabulated below.
For these 231 documented American Civil War veterans, Applications will be made to the US Department of Veterans' Affairs for military headstone for those veterans whose graves are currently unmarked. Twenty-three [ 23 ] applications are currently in work. The resource from which this information was derived is detailed below. |
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Resources for Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veterans Roster
The Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veterans Roster was derived from the sources delineated below.The most significant resources for the development of 'Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veterans Roster' were |
| Designation | Resource |
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| BGS | The Boulder Genealogical Society has compiled / published an index and biographic information on the ~6500 people interred at "Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, 1870 to The Present, Updated May 2001". This amazing genealogical / historic opus is available at the Boulder Public Library, Carnegie Branch Library for Local History and recently online. |
| CBL | Boulder Public Library, Carnegie Branch Library for Local History. |
| CVGR | Colorado Veterans' Grave Registrations, 1862-1949, database. An index of the database is available online;
grave registration cards can be viewed and copies obtain at / from the archive.
The Colorado State Archives
Room 1B-20 1313 Sherman Street Denver, CO 80203 Phone 303-866-2358 |
| CVNMC | Colorado Volunteers from the New Mexico Campaign
(March-November 1862) database available
via the Colorado State Archive online. The First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers [ Infantry ], FRCV, and two independent companies [James H. Ford's Independent Company and Theodore Dodd's Independent Company ] fought Confederate forces in the Battle of Glorieta Pass and the Battle of Peralta in New Mexico. |
| CCVToR | Colorado Volunteers [1861-1865 ] Transcript of Records Index
database available via the Colorado State Archive online. |
| HoVP | History of Pennsylvannia Volunteers,
1861-65; prepared in compliance with acts of the Pennsylvannia legislature by Samuel P. Bates. |
| MHS | Inscriptions on the 123 Department of Veteran Affairs Civil War Military HeadStone at Columbia Cemetery. Eg, F. W. Bennett's headstones. |
| NLP5_GAR | Records of the Nathaniel Lyons Post No. 5 [ Boulder, Colo. ],Grand Army of the Republic [ GAR ], available at the Boulder Public Library, Carnegie Branch Library for Local History. |
| NPS CWSS | The US National Park Service Civil War Soldier System online database;
[http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm] an invaluable / impressive resource comprised of three parts. |
| SBiCC | A 3 page, hand-lettered, Park Cemetery Association chart of 210 "Soldiers Buried in
Columbia Cemetery" available at the Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch Library for Local
History. The set of charts is annotated to have been corrected 4, March 1924. The Park Cemetery Association owned the Columbia Cemetery 23May1910-1965. |
| {State} CWV db | {State} and / or regiment specific Civil War Veteran data bases [rosters]. A virtual library
of these are indexed at "Civil War Regimental Rosters- Arranged by State" maintained by
valeddy@hotmail.com. There are some very impressive / comprehensive state.gov and privately developed / maintained sites, too numerous to iterate. That said, the are particularly noteworthy. |
| THS | Inscription on a Traditional HeadStone which details regimental data. Eg, John Reed's and Surgeon In Chief Enos G. Chase's headstones. |
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Notes for the Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veterans Rosters
The US National Park Service Civil War Soldier System online data base was used to validate the inscriptions on the military headstone and to determine unit / regiment data for veteran with sufficiently unique names.The NPS database is not yet complete and several states have submitted little or data. Additionally, there was very little US Regular [ Federal ] regiments data. Hence, 3 of the 6 Notes. The other two Notes are regarding |
| Designation | Comment |
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| Note01 | A veteran's name and "UNION SOLDIER" is the only inscription on two headstones;
John Dollison and Stephen Phillips |
| Note02 | There is no data for Missouri regiments in the NPS CWSS database. |
| Note03 | There is virtually no data for Pennsylvania regiments in the NPS CWSS database; only 89 Union soldiers. However, the History of Pennsylvannia Volunteers 1861-65; prepared in compliance with acts of the Pennsylvannia legislature by Samuel P. Bates is available online via the University of Michigan Making of America Books. |
| Note04 | "UNION SOLDIER" is only inscription on two headstone. |
| Note05 | There is very little data for US Regular [ Federal ] regiments in the NPS CWSS database. |