Confederate Veteran Cemetery, Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte NC
N 35° 14.124 W 080° 50.801
17S E 513949 N 3899159
The Confederate Cemetery is a separate burial area surrounding the tall obelisk-style Confederate Memorial in Charlotte's Elmwood Cemetery. Several separate historical monuments are erected there, many in the modern era
Waymark Code: WMX3GZ
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2017
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Modern Sons of Confederate Veteran's memorials surround the war dead who died at Confederate Hospitals who were exhumed and reburied here in 1870, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial obelisk erected here in 1887.
A new monument at the base of the 1887 UDC Confederate Memorial explains the history of this location, and reads as follows:
"[emblem of the Sons of Confederate Veterans]
CHARLOTTE
CONFEDERATE CEMETERY
By the spring of 1870, 169 Confederate soldiers from local CS [Confederate States] Hospital Cemeteries were reinterred in this section. As of spring of 1996, 105 war dead and 3 postwar graves have been marked by the Maj. Egbert A. Ross Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, friends and other SCV Camps, and the 26th, 30th and 43rd NC Regiments Reactivated.
Deo Vindice
April 1996"
Marker Name: Charlotte Confederate Cemetery
Marker Type: City
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