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  On this particular trip, I didn't see very many cemeteries but always and of course, those I did see made an impact on me. Top Left:  A typical rural cemetery near New Orleans. Bottom Left:  Take from a book on New Orleans, a typical city cemetery. Right:  The final resting place of more than 17,000 Union dead at Vicksburg National Memorial Park. Look closely and you'll see some upright stones and some flat stones. The flat ones were when the identification of the soldier was unknown. Scanning the whole scene, it was so sad to see how many flat ones there were.  The park signboard on the right also shares this:  "At hundreds of Civil War battle sites the remains of fallen soldiers lay nearly forgotten, scattered in woods, fields and roadside ditches."  Now did they gather those up to bury here??? Burials in cemeteries in New Orleans are tightly packed together and above ground. Why? The water table is too high for in-ground burial. The deceased are n...