On Thursday, March 26, John and I traveled to my home at 400 S. Broadway, Goreville, IL. This was 24.2 miles. On Saturday, March 28, we went to Mound City National Cemetery. It is located in Mound City, IL. It is 33.8 miles from my home. It is a total of 58 miles to the cemetery. The cemetery is located at 37.120243 degrees latitude and -89.151184 degrees longitude. While we were there, we learned that the cemetery was a large naval shipyard that provided warships to the Union's Mississippi squadron. Mound City was the site of a large Civil War hospital. In 1854, the federal government designated a piece of land to serve as the cemetery. Today, there are 2,300 known soldiers and 2,400 unknown soldiers. The original 1, 644 buried there died at there. We traveled through the cemetery and looked at the grave markers. It was sad to see all of the unknown soldiers buried there. John and I both shed a tear when we left the cemetery. After leaving the cemetery, we came back home. The next Thursday, we came back to the Wham Education building on the SIU campus. The total mileage from the trip was 116 miles. Added to his previous travels, his total number of miles is 659.
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