Identified Civil War Veterans Receive New Tombstones
By: Lauren Trager, KARK 4 News
Updated: June 24, 2012
A dedication service was held Sunday afternoon at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock honoring Civil War veterans.
New tombstones have been placed for more than a dozen recently identified Confederate and Union soldiers.
Mount Holly is the city's oldest cemetery .
The memorial service included a flag ceremony, and Civil War reenactments.
Sunday marks the one-hundred and fifty year anniversary of the death of one 16-year-old soldier buried there at the cemetery
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