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 CONFEDERATE CEMETERY - Fredericksburg, VA Posted by:  vhasler
N 38° 18.140 W 077° 27.986
18S E 284330 N 4242238
Buried here are 1,470 Confederate soldiers and officers, of which 1,140 are unidentified. An extensive collection of momuments.
Waymark Code: WM9YBV
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 10/16/2010
Views: 7
The CONFEDERATE CEMETERY (open 9-5 daily), entrance Washington Ave. and Amelia St., a large rectangular tract with scattered
trees and mossy tombstones behind a four-foot brick wall, was established in 1865 by the Fredericksburg Ladies' Memorial Association. On May 10 of that year the association held a Memorial Bay service here, possibly the first in the South. Here are buried 1,470 Confederate soldiers and officers. 1,140 of them unidentified who fell on battlefields near by.
---- Virginia - A Guide to the Old Dominion State, 1940.
The city and Confederate cemeteries share a common surrounding brick wall. As you enter, the city cemetery graves are to the left. The Confederate soldiers to the right and back. Numbers have grown significantly since 1940 as the National Park Service quotes "more than 3,300 Southern soldiers lie buried there amid quiet, peaceful surroundings; 2,184 of them are unknown." NPS link
Book: Virginia
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 225
Year Originally Published: 1940
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