SOLDIERS' LOT
Mound City Cemetery (also known as Woodland) was established in the late 1850s to serve the local community. During the Civil War, the Mound City Cemetery Association set aside land to bury Union soldiers. The first interments were thirty soldiers killed in the battles of Marais des Cygnes and Mine Creek. The federal government acquired the lots where the men were buried in 1870. Additional Union remains recovered from the area were moved here in the 1880s.
The US government erected the monument honoring Union soliders in 1889. The 7-foot-tall granite figure of a Union soldier at parade rest stands on a 12-foot-tall granite base. In 1940, the Works Progress Administration erected a stone wall and post-and-chain fence to separate the soldiers' lot from the city cemetery. The remains of eighty federal soldiers lie here today.
ABOUT THE PUZZLE
To solve this puzzle, use the sign at the posted coordinates to answer the question below and use the coordinates next to the correct answer to find the final container.
What Confederate General led a troop of 12,000 men from Arkansas and Missouri?
A. James Longstreet - N38 3.800 W94 39.807
B. George Pickett - N38 4.773 W94 45.147
C. Sterling Price - N38 8.782 W94 48.800
D. John Randolph - N38 5.990 W94 10.025