In 1892, the United Confederate Veterans of Chicago (UCV) appealed for funds to build a monument in Oak Woods Cemetery where almost all of the Confederate dead were reinterred from City Cemetery and the cemetery for those who died from smallpox near Camp Douglas. In that document, the UCV estimated that about 1,500 more unidentified Confederate dead were buried at Oak Woods. The document states that these bodies "…cannot be traced further, except in numbers, thereby making the probable aggregate as roundly stated above [6,000]." In the book compiling the speeches and material for the dedication of the monument in 1895, John Cox Underwood of the UCV stated that he had identified 4,317 of those buried in "Confederate Mound", the mass grave at Oak Woods Cemetery, that 412 more were identified by the U.S. Government in the roster of those reinterred from the smallpox cemetery and that an estimated 1,500 more were on registers burned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, for a total of 6,229. In 1912, Josiah Seymour Currey wrote that "there are 6,129 bodies of Confederate soldiers lying in Oakwoods Cemetery."