Confederate Soldiers 1861 - 1865 -- Spotsylvania Court House VA
N 38° 12.159 W 077° 34.988
18S E 273815 N 4231454
A granite soldier stands watch over the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMC2GA
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2011
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In 1866, the
Confederate Cemetery
was established in Spotsylvania, Virginia by the Spotsylvania Memorial Association, a group of local women, to reinter the Confederate soldiers who had been buried scattered across the area's battlefields during the Civil War. In the center of the cemetery, a tall granite monument with a Confederate soldier at rest was erected in 1918 to commemorate the soldiers of Spotsylvania County and the soldiers in the cemetery.
The base of the monument is inscribed with 1861 - 1865 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
Front:
ERECTED AND DEDICATED
MAY 12, 1918
BY THE SPOTSYLVANIA CHAPTER
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF
THE CONFEDERACY,
CONFEDERATED SOUTHERN
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION AND
CITIZENS OF SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY,
TO COMMEMORATE AND
PERPETUATE THE VALOR AND
PATROTISM OF THE SONS
OF SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY,
VIRGINIA, AND OTHER
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO
REPOSE IN THIS CEMETERY.
Right side:"LOVE MAKES MEMORY
ETERNAL."
Back:"WE HAVE GATHERED THE
SACRED DUST,
OF WARRIORS TRIED AND TRUE,
WHO BORE THE FLAG OF
OUR NATION'S TRUST,
AND FELL IN THE CAUSE
'THO LOST, STILL JUST,
AND DIED FOR ME AND YOU."
Left side:"LEST WE FORGET."