Some of our recent activities
At the Springfield National Cemetery, on 10 April 2004, Phelps Camp members participated in the interment of remains of seven unknown soldiers, found at Wilson Creek National Battlefield. The remains were found in a sinkhole on the battlefield by archeologists in the 1960s, and were recently returned to the National Park Service for burial.
We've created a full Interment Ceremony Photo Album, including the speakers. This page also contains the text of a Springfield News-Leader article about the ceremony. Following the interment ceremony on 10 April 2004, a monument provided by Phelps Camp 66 was unveiled.
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The front (left photo) and back (right photo) sides of the monument. |  |
Broken gravestone of Fletcher S. Riddle, a veteran of Company G, 14th West Virginia Infantry, buried in the Barton City Cemetery near Iantha, Barton County, Missouri.
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| Members of Phelps Camp at the grave of Fletcher S. Riddle.
Camp members ordered a replacement headstone from the Department of Veterans Affairs and, on 19 May 2002, replaced the broken stone. |
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