Civil War Veterans and the English Queen...

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I found this about American Civil War Veterans in London escorting our Dough Boys in front the Queen of England in WW one parade...

The London Branch of American Civil War Veterans, 1910-1933

After the Civil War, most veterans returned to their home cities, towns, villages or farms, sought new lives in the expanding West.

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In August, 1917, England welcomed the "Doughboys" on their way to join the Allied armies in France. Among the crowds cheering them as they marched through London were the London Veterans, whose photographs, with their banner, featured in the national press, one showing them grouped together and the other actually showing them marching with the troops. One soldier, writing home to his mother, related that he was in one of the first regiment the first to pass in front of the King and Queen, and that their escorts were United States Civil War veterans.

 

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A civil war vet...

Gravestone Dedication | Ensign John Davis Camp 10

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US Civil War soldier receives long overdue honors at London cemetery

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More than 1,155 Union and 151 Confederate soldiers are buried in the United Kingdom, with more to be identified, according to the organization.

 

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Finding Civil War graves in the United Kingdom...

THE SEARCH FOR GRAVES OF VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) BURIED IN THE UK – Church Monuments Society

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They returned home, some immediately after and others decades later. We know of 350 veterans or widows living in Great Britain who received Federal Pensions for Civil War service, but I have found at least 1,139 Union veterans, or their widows if they did not return, and 130 Confederates, likely to be buried here, but there must be many more; tracing them is immensely difficult. We currently know about 25% of their graves, buried everywhere from the Channel Islands and Cornwall to the Isle of Skye, but in the big cities finding their graves can be daunting, many dying in poverty and buried in public graves.

We have 7 Congressional Medal of Honor winners, 6 Black soldiers who served in designated U.S. Colored Troops units, 3 Union Generals, and 4 women who served as nurses, plus another who, it seems, masqueraded as a man and worked on a coaling ship serving the Union blockading fleet!