Enos Gray (1836 - 1863)

Born 1836 in Macon County, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elmira (Allen) Bates — married 5 May 1859 in Macon County, North Carolina

Died 16 Oct 1863 at about age 27 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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Enos Gray was a POW during the United States Civil War.

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Biography

Enos the son of William Charles Gray and Sophia McClure was a farmer, and a private in the 62nd North Carolina Infantry, Company D during the US Civil War. The Military File on Enos Gray, brother of John Ruffinson Plaska Gray, is as follows:

Enos Gray enrolled July 11, 1862 in Franklin County, NC. Present until captured at Cumberland Gap, TN. September 9, 1863. Delivered to Camp Douglas, IL. September 24, 1863. Sent to Military Prison at Louisville October 1863. Forwarded to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, IN. October 9, 1863. Entered Prison Hospital and died at Camp Morton on October 16, 1863. Ref. CSA Service Record.

Confederate prisoners to be moved to Crown Hill

Enos died 16 OCT 1863 while a prisoner at Ft. Morton (Camp Morton), Indiana. He was initially buried in the Confederate section of the Greenlawn Cemetery, along with, over 1600 other Confederate prisoners of war, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Greenlawn Cemetery was located along the White River just north of what would later become Kentucky Avenue. By August 1863 Greenlawn was nearing capacity from wartime casualties and facing encroachment from industrial development. To provide additional land for burials, a group of local businessmen formed a Board of Corporators (trustees) who established Crown Hill National Cemetery^[1] on October 22, 1863. The privately owned cemetery, northwest of downtown, borders present-day Thirty-Eighth Street. In 1866 the U.S. government authorized a National Cemetery for Indianapolis and made arrangements for the removal of the soldiers from Greenlawn.

Confederate Memorial

Most of the bodies that were present were relocated to Crown Hill National Cemetery. In 1931 industrial development around Greenlawn Cemetery required the bodies of the Confederate prisoners to be moved to Crown Hill, where they were interred in a mass grave, known as Confederate Mound in Section 32 at Crown Hill.^[2]

In 1993 a Confederate Memorial, with ten bronze plaques listing the names of the 1616 Confederate soldiers and sailors who died at Camp Morton, was erected to mark the grave.

Confederate Memorial

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Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois Confederate Mound

See 62nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry for unit history during the Civil War.

Source Note

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~indiana42nd/campmorton.htm

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Hill_National_Cemetery#Confederate_soldiers.27_burials
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlawn_Cemetery_(Indianapolis,_Indiana)

Ref. information from book titled "Confederate P.O.W.'s Buried In Northern Cemeteries".