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Photographer: Zacharias Beau T
Taken: July 10, 2010
Caption: Pioneer Cemetery
Additional Description: Grave site of the only Confederate veteran in the cemetery, New York born Private Joseph Granger. Like the majority of men from the north that fought for the South, Granger fought for the homestead of his Lone Star wife. His New York brother Major General Gordon Granger commanded the Union forces taking Galveston and the coastal department of Texas, June 1865.

This photo was 6 months before the fire. Always clear site debris! (Marker stone was since restored).
Submitted: March 3, 2012, by Zacharias Beau T of Alpine, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p194961
File Size: 0.342 Megabytes

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