New grave marker for Minn. soldier who died at Antietam  Issues
Rupa Shenoy · ·  A Civil War private's overgrown headstone
discovered last year is being replaced on Saturday.  Local
officials and religious leaders are attending a dedication of
the new grave marker at Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul.  Linda
Radtke, a cemetery official, says Pvt. Edmund Sampare was the
only Civil War soldier killed at the Battle of Antietam whose
body was returned to Minnesota. She says Civil War re-enacters
will fire a rifle volley as Sampare's new headstone is unveiled.
"It's a white marble; it's an upright marker," Radtke said.
"Pvt. Sampare was a member of the U.S. Sharpshooters, so there's
the Sharpshooters emblem on it, and then it has his name, rank,
date of birth, date of death, and I believe it says 'died at the
Battle of Antietam.'"   Radtke says most of the men who died at
Antietam were buried on the battleground.  "In the 1860s, there
was no way of really preserving the body," she said. "And so it
was an expensive pro