Confederate brothers get second burial

Raleigh, N.C. — The bodies of two Confederate brothers were re-buried Saturday in Raleigh.

Slideshow Confederate brothers buried again

Brothers Joel and Joseph Holleman died and were buried in 1862, but their remains were unearthed in Raleigh last month by development. Excavation near PNC Arena turned up the brothers' bones.

On Saturday morning, the two men rested under honor guard at the North Carolina Museum of History.

A horse-drawn artillery caisson then bore them to Oakwood Cemetery where they were buried with a military and Masonic service by the 26th North Carolina Regiment.

The Sons of the Confederate Veterans also attended the burial.

Officials said Joseph Holleman enlisted with the 26th Regiment in September 1861 and died early the next year of pneumonia in Morehead City at age 22.

Joel Holleman was not a soldier, but officials say they think he worked at the state Fairgrounds Hospital in Raleigh and was listed by the federal government as a Confederate collaborator. He died at age 28.

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american by birth SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD..i consider my Southern heritage to be of a higher calling than the mere fact i was born in america.... the cultural genocide by the north continues to this day against the South.. they -- northerners would love to deny all Southerners thier heritage culture and history.

wildpig777
April 19, 2012 8:44 a.m.

I never fail to be amused when the groaners come out against anything Confederate. Don't like Confederate things? Then don't go to reenactments or memorials or anything remotely connected with the Confederacy.Believe me, we that like those activities will not miss you.

Nobody-You-Know
April 18, 2012 4:56 p.m.

@ North Carolina Home

You conveniently left out:

Slavery

Civil Rights

Forced Sterilizations

But of course we've come such a long way these are no longer worth discussing anymore. ;-)

Committ to Mitt 2012
April 17, 2012 12:13 p.m.

Southern Planters got tired of supplying 68% of the federal coffers from tariffs on cotton. Lincoln fortified Fort Sumpter to collect the tariffs out of Charleston Harbour and blockaded the whole southern coast. North Carolina was the last state to secede refusing to let federal troops come through NC to attack their sister states. The civil war was over Lincoln's greed for tax money and the planter's greed for money. The vast majority of Southerners never owned a slave, and the main port of entry was New York harbour.

veyor
April 17, 2012 10:08 a.m.

North Carolina Home: spot on.