We honor across this country the men and women who have been a part of our military on this day, November 11, each year. The holiday was first called Armistice Day and celebrated the end of WWI on the 11 of November at 11:00. It became an official holiday in 1938 and changed after WWII to honor all who have served in any of the armed forces.
Thiis grave is found in an old mountain-side church yard near Elizabethton, TN. This man was a member of the Tennessee 13th Calvary and unit of Union volunteers formed in Strawberry Plains and was active from 1863 to April of 1865. Tennessee was a Confederate state that had over 50,000 men serving in the Union army.
