Headstone of Civil War soldier to be fixed

COLUMBUS, OHIO — I t ’s never too late to fix some mistakes.

A Civil War soldier misidentified when he was buried at an Ohio cemetery more than 150 years ago is to get a new headstone.

Confederate soldier Augustus Beckmann was fatally wounded in the Battle of Shiloh on April 7, 1862. But he was buried at the Camp Chase Confederate Ceme- tery in Columbus under the wrong name, A. Bergman, and wrong company.

B e c k mann’s b ro t h e r ’s great-great-grandson, Greg Beckman, discovered the error when he visited Camp Chase, the site of a prison camp for captured Confederates, last Memorial Day.

Beckman, who teaches government at a high school in Placentia, Calif., pulled together the necessary documentation and asked the National Cemetery Admin- i st ration to fix the headthe fate of his brother, as stone. He recently learned August was buried under his request was approved. the wrong surname of Berg

An administration spokesman all those years,” Beckwoman says approved stones man said. “The last time they are typically in place within saw one another was on the 60 days. battlefield of Shiloh.”

B e c k man’s g re at - g re a t August Beckmann was burgrandfather, William Beckied under the name Bergman m a n n , w a s A u g u s t u s ’ at Camp Dennison near Cinbrother. The two came to cinnati, and the incorrect America from present-day name followed him when Germany between 1858 and his remains and those of 30 1860 and enlisted in the 2nd other soldiers were removed Texas Infantry in Galveston. in 1869 and reinterred at

“William never learned Camp Chase.