Tennessee Confederate Soldier's Home Cemetery - Nashville Tn
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fatcat161
N 36° 12.706 W 086° 36.465
16S E 535257 N 4007508
Located on Lebanon Pike in the area called Hermitage, Tn. (but it is still in Nashville).
Waymark Code: WM7KCZ
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/04/2009
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Most of the 483 Confederate soldiers buried here were veterans who died while in the Confederate Soldier's Home which stood about 1 mile north of here. also buried here is Ralph Ledbetter, former slave and bodyguard to a Confederate officer during the war.
Left post inscription: "Memorial post erected by Tennessee Division United Daughters of the Confederacy and Tennessee General Assembly" July 3, 1941.
Right post inscription: "In this scared plot lie buried the brave soldiers of the South who died in the Tennessee Confederate Soldier's Home."
Date cemetery was established: 1892
Visiting hours:
dawn to dusk
Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]
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