Our Soldiers’ Cemetery - Mount Jackson VA
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Don.Morfe
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The marker is located on Main Stree (U.S. 11) in Mount Jackson VA 22842
Waymark Code: WM18B09
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/30/2023
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TEXT ON THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MARKER NO.A-65
Our Soldiers’ Cemetery
The Mount Jackson Confederate Hospital’s cemetery, now called Our Soldiers Cemetery, was dedicated on May 10, 1866 the third anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s death. The “Memorial and Decoration Day” organized by the local ladies was one of the first such observances in the South. The service began with an address in the church by Major Henry Kyd Douglas, the youngest of Jackson’s staff officers. Afterward, a participant wrote that “ladies, gentlemen and children as well as many ex-Confederates, all carrying wreaths prepared the day before, marched to the cemetery ¾ of a mile north of town to place those wreaths on each of the 400 graves.”
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1997
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Department of Historic Resources
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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