SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Staff at a Sioux City cemetery are working with high school students to bring more light, both literally and figuratively, on an area where 72 Civil War veterans are buried. About 200 West High School students are helping staff by researching the section of Floyd Cemetery established by the city in 1885 for the Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 22 for former Union soldiers.

Their findings may be compiled in a book to present to the cemetery.  The Sioux City Journal reports 20 white marble tombstones will be installed on currently unmarked graves this fall. The city plans to replace a sidewalk and concrete steps, repair a gazebo, illuminate a flagpole and plant grass and flowers.