Doolittle C.S.A. Cemetery
Posted by: GA Cacher
N 32° 19.897 W 089° 09.492
16S E 296862 N 3579240
Historic Marker for the Doolittle C.S.A. Cemetery in the town of Newton MS.
Waymark Code: WM7VEM
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2009
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It is said Roger Williams Doolittle offered the Doolittle family burial ground as the final resting place for the Confederate Soldiers. His daughter Julia was working as a nurse at the hospital and fell in love with a doctor at the Confederate hospital, Albert Puckett. They are both buried here.
Doolittle C.S.A. Cemetery
In this cemetery which has been
maintained by the Doolittle family
since antebellum times, are buried
about 100 Confederate soldiers who
died at military hospitals during the siege of Vicksburg.