Stenger Hill Cemetery is a historic burial ground named for the Stenger family.
Here, several individuals from that lineage are laid to rest,
Ludwick Stenger (1769–1820)
John Stenger (1789–1835).
Stenger Hill Cemetery is also the final resting place of an unknown Confederate soldier
believed to be a straggler killed in the aftermath of the Civil War
by a Union Veteran who was a local blacksmith.
A local newspaper at that time reported that:
"In the Fort Loudon area
two confederate stragglers were captured after having been found looting a building.
They were then led out of the village and shot by several recently discharged Union veterans.
Their bodies were hastily buried in the village cemetery."
The burning of Chambersburg, by the Confederates, 15 miles to the east was a dramaticly painful scene, that would have been easily seen in Fort Loudon.
This war left a trail of death and destruction!
Alhough we will never know who these men were and how old they might have been,
they inevitably would have left behind families.
No matter what they may have done in life,
they too left behind grieving mother's who never knew what happened to their sons,
and father's who never had the chance to know their son's as grown men.
May their memory live on
with that of the many other unknown soldiers of this time
BOTH Union and Confederate!
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