The Nation - News from Oct. 13, 1986

The remains of a Confederate soldier who died as a Union prisoner of war in 1863 will be exhumed from a Louisville, Ky., cemetery and reinterred next to his wife’s grave in Tennessee. Descendants of the man, Cyrus Graham Clark, found his grave in 1972 after family members had searched for 100 years. They plan to move the body in a pine box draped with the South’s battle flag to Gainesboro, Tenn. There, a mule team will haul the coffin to the city cemetery, accompanied by a fife and drum corps and 75 people in Confederate uniform. Jim Birdwell, one of Clark’s descendants, called the planned ceremony “a homecoming in the truest sense.”