L. HARRIS CHURCHWELL: “There are books in the Washington Memorial Library, genealogical section, that document burial sites for Confederate Soldiers of Georgia. From that information, I would visit the cemetery. I had a lot of help from family descendants of officers who helped with out-of-state gravesites. I had in my files a lot of data on the officers through my research through the years. It took me around two years to gather the research.”

THE VALDOSTA DAILY TIMES: I would imagine you did a great amount of traveling. Did you visit as many cemeteries as possible or seek specific gravesites where you already knew the Twelfth’s officers to be buried?

L. HARRIS CHURCHWELL: “I never visited gravesites that I did not know if the officer was buried there. It is very time consuming to examine each grave stone and not possibly find the specific grave stone. It is better to sit in an air-conditioned library, or phone a county historical society and research the grave. I went three times to Alabama for this one officer without success. A kind librarian in Opelika told me I was in the wrong cemetery and gave me instructions to the correct cemetery five miles from Opelika.”