The Confederate Navy Yard -- Confederate Veteran Cemetery, Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte NC
N 35° 14.120 W 080° 50.794
17S E 513960 N 3899152
The Confederate Cemetery is a separate burial area surrounding the tall obelisk-style Confederate Memorial in Charlotte's Elmwood Cemetery. Several historical monuments are erected there, many in the modern era
Waymark Code: WMX3H3
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.
The waymarked marker reads as follows:
"CONFEDERATE NAVY YARD CHARLOTTE
The Navy shield affixed to this monument was originally installed on the wall of the Seaboard Airline Railway freight depot. One of the several buildings that was part of the C.S. Naval Ordnance Works, located on the SW corner of E. Trade and College Streets. The marker was given and dedicated June 3, 1910, by the Stonewall Jackson Chapter #220, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Miss Anna Morrison “Stonewall” Jackson, founding Chapter President, was present for the dedication. In May 1862 most of the ordnance machinery, lathes, tools, rifles and ammunition of The Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, were relocated to Charlotte, as Federal forces moved to occupy the Norfolk-Portsmouth area. The Confederates needed an inland city, well connected to rail transportation. Some of the many items manufactured at the several ovens, foundries and machine shops that covered an extensive area over 300 yards in length alongside the railroad were: naval gun carriages, projectiles for cannon for gunboats and coastal batteries, anchors, rifles, torpedoes, marine engines and propeller shafts for the C.S.S. Albermarle, C.S.S. Virginia II, C.S.S Raleigh, and other ironclads built in Charleston, Wilmington and Savannah. Several prominent naval officers commanded the facility at different times, among them Capt. Richard l. Page (later of Fort Morgan fame), Capt. Catesby, Ap R. Jones (of C.S.S Virginia fame), and Chief Engineer H. Ashton Ramsey (also of C.S.S. Virginia fame). In late April 1865 a company of 60 uniformed and armed Navy Yard workmen escorted President Jefferson Davis’ wife, children, and the Confederate Treasury to Abbeville, SC before returning.to Charlotte. An additional 240 workmen served as guards for the Navy Yard and other facilities, prior to the occupation by Federal Forces.
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This photograph of the Seaboard Airline freight depot as it appeared during the Confederate Reunion of June 1929. It is one of the many buildings that comprised the Confederate.Navy Yard. The navy shield dedicated in 1910, can be seen on the middle right side of the building next to the raised parking lot.
Erected by the Stonewall Jackson Chapter #220 United Daughters of the Confederacy upon the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the War between the States May 3, 2015, assisted by the Robert E. Lee Confederate Heritage Association, Piedmont Civil War Roundtable, 13th North Carolina Troops, 30th North Carolina Troops, Lathram’s Battery."
Marker Name: Confederate Navy Yard Charlotte
Marker Type: City
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