The dead at Gettysburg, photo by Matthew Brady, from the collection of the National Archives

Although the Civil War ended in 1865, the task of identifying, and in some cases re-burying, the dead from the battlefields to newly formed National Cemeteries had only just begun.  By 1871 the Quartermaster's Department had re-interred 300,000 remains of Union soldiers to permanent resting places in 74 new National Cemeteries and 250 other designated cemeteries. These extracts are from the 27 volumes of names published by the Quartermaster Department.  Not all died on the battlefield.  Many Civil War soldiers died of disease. Some were wounded or sick and sent home only to succumb at home and were not listed with their fellow comrades.  Some died in Prisoner of War camps.  Some were African-Americans who got their name Carman from their former 'masters', from the time when slavery was a part of life in the North as well as the South  (slavery did not end in New York until 1823).  No distinction is made here between the different family lines represented - All are recorded here; for they were all brother's-in-arms and bore the name Carman with honor.  In all fairness to the Carman mother's and wives of the soldiers who died, I have included these soldiers as well.

Quartermaster General's Office, General Order No. 99, December 11, 1866

Roll of Honor 

Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries

"They rose in dark and evil days

To right their native land;

They kindled here a living blaze

That nothing shall withstand.

* * * * * * * * *

Then here's their memory - may it be

For us a guiding light

To cheer our strife for liberty,

And teach us to unite."

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1866

NATIONAL CEMETERY AT CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE

Carman, Jonathan  Pvt, Company G, 52nd Ohio Infantry 20 Aug 1864

NATIONAL CEMETERY AT STONE'S RIVER, TENNESSEE

NATIONAL CEMETERY AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE

Carman, J.B. 50th Pennsylvania Infantry 23 Mar 1864

CYPRESS HILLS NATIONAL CEMETERY, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Carman, William Pvt,   20th U.S. Colored Troops   21 Feb 1864

CEMETERY OF THE NINTH CORPS, U.S.A. AT MEADE STATION, NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA

Carman, Henry 11th New Hampshire, Company H date unknown

DIED IN THE PRISON PENS AND INTERRED AT ANDERSONVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY, GEORGIA

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, VIRGINIA

Carman, Oliver, Pvt,   7th Maryland, Company C, died of disease, 29 May 1865

WESTCHESTER NATIONAL CEMETERY, VIRGINIA

Carman, Willet Company A,   78th NY Infantry  unknown    (Died Near Harper's Ferry)

UNION SOLDIERS INTERRED AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA

Not Listed on the Rolls, but known to have died in / during the war 

Carmon, Horatio, Pvt, Co. H, 89th Infantry Regiment, New York - Enlisted 1 January 1864 at the age of 18  - killed 9 June 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor

Carman, William V.C., Pvt, Co. F, 124th New York Volunteers, killed 3 May 1863, Chancellorsville, Virginia

Carman, James A., Lt., 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, captured at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863, died as a Prisoner of War at Charleston, South Carolina on 5 October 1864

Carman, Alfred, Cpl, Co. H, Fourteenth Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers, killed in action 27 November 1863, Locust Grove, Virginia

Daniel W. Carman, Musician, Co. H, Fifth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, died of Typhoid Fever on 31 May 1862, Douglass U.S. Army Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Carman, Louis Augustus, Pvt., Co. A, 24th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, wounded at the Battle of Winchester, Va., died of his wounds 14 November 1864

Van Keuren, Theron L., Co. A, 5th New York Duryee Zouaves, killed 27 June 1862 at Gaines Mill, Virginia (son of John and Jane (Carman) Van Keuren)

Carman, Sylvester, Co. H, 4th NY Heavy Artillery, killed  1 July 1864 at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia

George G. Carman, killed 6 May 1862, Battle of Williamsburg

Soldiers of the Union Army

This is something new I am just adding, so patients please as I populate the list (or let me know if I missed someone)

Alpheus Fay Carman - Company G, 27th Iowa Infantry

Alexander, James and Leslie Carman (brothers) - Company A, First Kentucky Federal Calvary

Chauncey C. Carman

John Thomas Carman - Company B, 40th Ohio Infantry

Oliver Perry Carman - Company I, 17th Michigan Infantry

Solomon Carman, Company K, 29th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, wound at the Battle of Sabine River, Arkansas and taken prisoner of war.

Jacob Kunkle - Company I, 29th Iowa Infantry, wounded in the Battle of Spanish Fort outside Mobile, Alabama