VA says it'll fix Confederate soldier's New York gravestone inscribed with wrong last name
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Federal officials say they'll correct a Confederate soldier's gravestone that was inscribed with the wrong name decades after he died at a Civil War prison camp in New York.
The cemetery administration for the Department of Veterans Affairs tells the Star-Gazette of Elmira (http://stargaz.tt/1vHvdsj ) that a replacement headstone has been ordered for the grave of Pvt. Franklin Cauble.
His great-great-grandson, Tom Fagart of Concord, North Carolina, said last month that Cauble had been buried in Elmira's Woodlawn National Cemetery under the last name of his friend, Pvt. Franklin Cooper.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cooper survived imprisonment at Elmira, but Cauble died there in 1864. The wrong last name was inscribed on a granite headstone installed in 1907 when the original wooden markers were replaced.
The VA had previously said it doesn't correct historic gravestones.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: Star-Gazette, http://www.stargazette.com