MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER
Union Soldiers Buried in Historic Cemetery
Sierra Vista, Arizona
· Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery
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This cemetery holds the remains of 18 California Volunteers who died at Fort Lowell during the Civil War and a Civil War veteran of the U.S. Colored Troops, and their graves are marked with a GAR star. Those buried here are Sgt. John C. McQuade of Co. B, 2 Calif. Calvary, who died July 12, 1862; 1st Sgt. Elijah Perry of Co. A, 1 Calif. Calvary, who died Aug. 12, 1862; Pvt. Jacob Smith of Co. G, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died Oct. 3, 1862; Pvt. Samuel Riddle of Co. E, Calif. Infantry; Pvt. George W. Ward of Co. B, Calif. Calvary; Pvt. William Sayers of Co. I, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died Aug. 20, 1863; Pvt. James A. Richards of Co. H, 1 Calif. Infantry, who died July 12, 1862; Pvt. James Todd of Co. E, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died of wounds Sep. 6, 1862; Pvt. Samuel DeCoster of Co. D, 1 Calif. Infantry, who died Oct. 25, 1862; Cpl. William W. Handy of Co. G, 1 Calif. Infantry, who died Feb. 6, 1863; Musician William Uttley of Co. H, Calif. Infantry, who died May 2, 1863; Pvt. Milton McConkey of Co. I, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died Dec. 8, 1863; Mr. Isaac Thompson (?), Pvt. Co. D, 24 U.S.C.T., born 1851 and died April 7, 1905; Pvt. John W. Brehmer of Co. A, 5 Calif. Calvary, who died July 29, 1862; Pvt. Thomas W. Hull of Co. D, 1 Calif. Infantry, who died Sep. 10, 1862; Pvt. George A. McFarland of Co. G, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died of wounds Oct. 30, 1862; Pvt. William Dean of Co. G, 1 Calif. Infantry, who died Feb. 8, 1863; Pvt. Robert Meanor of Co. D, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died Aug. 7, 1863; and Pvt. Charles Moore of Co. D, 5 Calif. Infantry, who died March 2, 1864.
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