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Article: Civil War veteran rests properly, no longer forgotten.(General News)(The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War identify a soldier's grave and give him a fitting military burial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2005
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Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard
COTTAGE GROVE - Preserving the memory of long-deceased Civil War veterans is painstaking work. Just ask Harold Slavik Jr. of Springfield.
Slavik and other members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War scour cemeteries, libraries and historical societies around Oregon to identify veterans from the War Between the States.
On Sunday, Slavik and about a dozen others provided a fitting military burial for one Jackson Kile, a private with the 1st Oregon Infantry - 83 years after his death.
Pvt. Kile now has a handsome marble headstone that bears his name, a far cry from the glass-covered, ...