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[Steve]

Thanks for your kind comments, Roger and Rich!

I do need to correct an error in my email to Roger - the 1873 interment list has 45 regular army soldiers compared to 44 on the central register (which only includes regular army), I forgot to subtract the two Pennsylvania soldiers before comparing the two lists. My best guess to reconcile the one burial/death difference between registers is that the 1873 list also includes 1869 deaths and the sole soldier who died that year at Ft. Jefferson, Ferdinand Gross (who's also not listed by name on the 1879 list) who drowned on 18 June 1869, may be one of the unknown soldiers on the list.

I wonder why the sole soldier listed by name as being buried at Hospital Key, Henry Wever of the NY Volunteers, isn't on the 1873 list at all. Does that mean that the 1873 list doesn't have burials from Sand/Hospital Key and that O'Laughlen was originally buried on Bird Key?