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  As you know I photograph tombstones of Civil war veterans in Kansas cemeteries.  Unfortunately there is only one of me and this state is very large.  I do not wish to leave out anybodies ancestor or miss any veteran so I came up with the ideal to use Flickr to help me and us get the Virtual Civil war Veteran cemetery for Kansas together.  I stated a group in Flickr called "Civil war Veterans Buried in Kansas".  People can get a free Flickr account which can hold up to 200 photos.  They can join the group and upload their photos.  The photos are copyrighted to the individual screen name so people get credit for their photos.  Photos can be tombstone photos, pictures of veterans, pictures of obituaries (of course remembering copyright rules) or pictures of documents about Civil war veterans.  The group webpage is at the following address: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/civilwar_veterans_tombstones/sets/

  John Allen Jackson- Retired U. S. Army born in 1962.  I volunteer as the Kansas Gen Web Civil war Coordinator and I photograph cemeteries in Kansas and in the Freedom's Frontier area (Civil war Veteran tombstones) which includes parts of Western Missouri.  Elk county has alot of very interesting history.  I photographed a Civil war Veteran tombstone in Elk Falls who was apparently a Confederate Veteran.  His name is Alson G. Wicker but I was never able to come up with more information on him.  He was born Nov. 14, 1832 and died Nov. 14, 1897.  If anybody knows anything about this veteran I would love to hear it.