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Found this at: http://www.monmouth.com/~mcha3/coll62.html
Monmouth County Historical Association Library and Archives
(Captain Samuel T. Sleeper papers 1862 - 1867 )
which should explain it:
"Upon learning of Samuel's death, Abby Sleeper sough Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's help in retrieving her husband's body. Evidently the grave site was not well recorded, as the War Department soon apologized that, "under existing circumstances it would be impracticable to recover the body." After the war, the government attempted to locate and consolidate as many soldiers' graves as it could. The Quartermaster General's burial inventory shows that a large number of graves were found near Spotsulvania Court House and were removed to Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Undoubtedly, Sleeper and his two fellow officers lie in three of the 12,601 "Unknown" graves at Fredericksburg, VA"
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