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[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Steve for sending these images. Steve writes, "I have images of the Fort Jefferson interments record to post to the forum. It comes in two sets of names, one from 1873 that lists interments from 1861-1868 followed by another duplicate list with additions from 1879. Note that in the duplicate 1879 entry for O'Laughlen, it lists him as a private from Co. M 5th US Artillery. Apparently the person copying the 1879 entry copied the information of the name above O'Laughlen's on the 1873 list, Pvt Desalo (Desoto?) Holmes who died on 24 Mar. 1868. Of course this error leads somebody to create a duplicate Find A Grave record for "Pvt Michael O'Laughlen":

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1125...o_laughlen

I have to add that I found a slight discrepancy in the number of deaths. The interment list from 1873 lists 47 soldiers as dying/buried at Fort Jefferson from 1863-1868, while by my count the central Army register of deaths only lists the names of 44 soldiers as dying during that time period at Fort Jefferson. (51 total interments from the 1873 list; less O'Laughlen, two "citizens" who died in 1867, and one Mary Louisa Jackson who died in Aug. 1861)."