SCV camp trip of discovery

Colorado division search for unmarked confederate graves.

Greeting fellow Colorado SCVers. This is your humble but loveable former 676 camp adjutant Sir Robert Milner nearly live from day one of our first of many trips to the high country in search of the unmarked graves of confederate soldiers who are buried here without proper markers. Roy and I arrived at base camp about 1:30PM At the Stagecoach reservoir park camp ground (The Yampa campground which we were at first to have as base camp was flooded by the high Yampa river) were we joined up with fellow members Sir Gary Mitchell, Sir Scott Meyers, Woody Taylor, Charlie Hogan, Jason Phillip Self and his family. Spent the better part of the afternoon setting up camp. Gary said that Scott, Charlie, and Phillip had already hit grave sites in Steamboat Springs and Yampa valley and had found three of the soldiers on our list including Calvin Willey’s of the 22^nd North Carolina’s site which will need a new stone. And as a bonus the caretaker of the Steamboat Springs cemetery was the great great grandson (Josh Andrews) of one of the men on our list. Quick thinking Charlie gave him a SCV membership flyer and we might have a new member soon.Also in Yampa we found Benjamin F. Allen  of the 2^nd Virginia Cav. Once we all settled down and met at Roy’s RV, We made plans for tomorrow’s trips to Haden, Craig Maybell, and Hahn’s peak cemeteries.