Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery
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N 35° 37.571 W 086° 14.492
16S E 568680 N 3942752
Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM26B8
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2007
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Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery
Beech Grove, TN USA
50 Graves (known)
Originally the site of a pioneer cemetery, many early residents are buried here. In 1866, returned Confederate soldiers, under the leadership of Maj. William Hume and David Lawrence, collected and reinterred here the bodies of soldiers who fell at isolated places in the Beech Grove-Hoover's Gap engagement, June 24-26, 1863. The pioneer cemetery is no more, most of the remaining head stones have been destroyed and are not piles of rubble around the Confederate soldiers.
Most of the Confederate graves are of unknown soldiers.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Not listed
Approximate number of graves: Not listed
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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