160 years later, Civil War hero Nathan Allen is finally honored at Warden Cemetery

DALLAS, Pa. — "He was shot while carrying the flag, and he died the next day at a hospital." That is Linda Holmes speaking about her great-great-uncle, Nathan Allen, a native of the back mountain here in Luzerne County . Allen was a Company K 142nd Pennsylvania Union Army soldier in the Civil War.

Since he died in a hospital in Virginia only two months before the end of the war and 160 years later, this ceremony is celebrating Allen's life with a marker placed at Warden Cemetery in Dallas, next to the gravesite of his relatives.

"All of the soldiers that have been buried at the hospital were disinterred and moved to the new national cemetery, and Nathan Allen's remains never made it," says Holmes.

For 6 years, Holmes has been researching and writing a book about Allen's journey in the