One marker has always seemed out of place among the rows of Confederate gravestones at Beaufort National Cemetery.
It once stood out because the soldier who lay beneath it was unknown.
On Saturday, that soldier joined the ranks of his comrades.
Cloaked under the second national flag of the Confederacy was a new marker engraved with the name Pvt. Haywood Treadwell. With a tug, one of his ancestors — a 5-year-old North Carolina boy who carries the same last name — unveiled the marker to a crowd of about 100.
A Sampson County, N.C., turpentine farmer, Haywood Treadwell was a member of the 61st North Carolina volunteers fighting in the rifle pits at Battery Wagner on Morris Island when he was wounded and captured Aug. 26, 1863.
He died in a Union hospital in Beaufort 17 days later.
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