He is not identified in the commonly-used listing of soldiers buried there, but two sources vouch for his interment.
One is a short article in the local newspaper in 1883 that says: “It is worthy of note that the grave of the only Federal soldier buried in the Forsyth cemetery was not only remembered in the decoration of Thursday, but it had more flowers than any other grave.”
Many years later, Frances T. Dumas Sullivan recalled the soldier incidentally in a letter. She said that the soldier arrived in Forsyth in a critical condition and her father, the Primitive Baptist minister and hymn writer Edmund Dumas “whose heart and home were ever open to the distressed” not only took him in but also, along with a neighbor James Clements, “nursed and cared for him until he died.” The body, she said, was “buried among our Southern boys” in the Confederate cemetery in Forsyth.
Today there appears to be no marked grave for the enemy soldier who before his death received Southern hospitality in the home of a Primitive Baptist minister in Monroe County. His name and state are apparently unknown.