Grave of Unknown Union Soldier, Evergreen Cemetery,

Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia, 2005.

c. Brian Brown

Fitzgerald, unique because it was a colony for Union veterans after the Civil War, in the heart of the Old Confederacy, boasts an unusually large number of Union graves in its main cemetery, Evergreen. Several unknown soldiers' remains were transferred to the city at the request of locals around the turn of the last century, largely due to the efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic and its ladies auxillary, the Women's Relief Corps.