Grave of an Unknown Confederate Soldier Cemetery
Gray

During the Civil War a family living in Gray, Maine received word that their son had died from a wound received in battle. When the coffin arrived home, the mother opened it for a last look at her beloved son only to discover that it contained the body of a young Confederate soldier. Believing that the young man's family would want a proper burial, the people of Gray interred him in a local cemetery. After the war ended the ladies of Gray placed on the grave a headstone which reads, "Stranger, A Soldier of the Late War." Each Memorial Day a Confederate flag is placed at the gravesite by Gray reidents.

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