Shingle Creek

Florida · USA · Cemetery

A Vietnam veteran walking this cemetery was approached by a man in grey, who saluted him and told him to be careful.

A Confederate soldier is reported at this cemetery near Kissimmee, Florida, and the account comes from a Vietnam veteran.

He saw a man in grey walking among the graves. At one point the man came up to him and saluted him.

Then he told him to be careful.

There is a Confederate casualty buried here, who died in 1863.

One soldier saluting another across a hundred years is the shape of this story and it is worth setting down carefully rather than sentimentally. The two men fought in wars a century apart, for causes that have nothing in common, and what passed between them in that account was the recognition one soldier gives another.

What he was warning about is not recorded.

Osceola County was frontier cattle country during the Civil War, and Florida beef went north to feed the Confederate army.

The cemetery is a public burial ground.

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Shingle Creek liegt in Florida, USA.