Dozens commemorate new grave marker for Confederate veteran

Roughly two dozen people, many claiming a Confederate heritage, gathered Saturday morning to celebrate the placement of a headstone on the previously unmarked grave of a Civil War veteran in the Galena Cemetery. Seen from just the right angle, the ceremony for John H. Leeman could have been taking place even before 1935, when the Confederate soldier -- later a town physician and constable -- died at 79. Descendants of Confederate soldiers, many wearing period uniforms or hoop skirts in a gesture