Honoring The Civil War Dead? Or using their bodies for fertilizer?

 

 Apparently the remains of some of those killed during the civil war were turned into fertilizer!

Source: HERE.

"The practice also seems to have been adopted in the United States. During the Civil War, many of the estimated 700,000 soldiers who died were buried in mass graves. An 1867 article in the Delaware State Journal includes an eyewitness account:

The first sight that greeted my eyes at Manassas Junction was a forcible reminder of the war. Two huge piles of bones — horse bones, cattle bones, and, sad to say human bones intermingling — lay whitening right in front of the hotel. They are picked up off the battlefield by the owner of the soil, and carried here for shipment by the cars, to be ground into fertilizers at some mill at Baltimore."