Middleburg Baptist Church - Middleburg, Virginia - Civil War Discovery Trail Sites on Waymarking.com

The sign explores the well known veterans of the Confederacy that are buried at the Sharon Cemetery. While the sign is mostly text (see below), however there are photos of some of the veterans mentioned as well as the "Unknown Soldiers" memorial and a photo of Co. G, 11th Mississippi.

Sharon Cemetery's Notable Confederate Dead

After the Second Battle of Manassas, August 28-30, 1862, the Middleburg Baptist Church (to your right) served as a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers. Some of the soldiers who died there are buried in Sharon Cemetery, in front of you, the final resting place of 81 Southern soldiers including some killed elsewhere. Col. Francis M. Green (1823-1864), 11th Mississippi Infantry, is one of the few whose name is known. He survived Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg but was mortally wounded on May 12, 1864, at Spotsylvania Court House. The unknowns are honored by an obelisk, "To the Unknown Dead," in the Confederate Circle.

Several notable and interesting veterans are buried here. Maj. Arthur Lee Rogers (1831-1871), Loudoun Artillery, was severely wounded at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863. Riding in an ambulance when Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was shot, Rogers insisted that the general take his place. Rogers designed the Third National Flag of the Confederacy in 1865 while recuperating from his wound. Lt. Charles Minnigerode, Jr. (1845-1888), aide-de-camp to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, was the elder son of the Rev. Charles Minnigerode, rector of St. Paul's Church in Richmond.

Lt. Henry H. "Harry" Hatcher (1841-1895), Co. A, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry (Mosby's Rangers) is buried here. His tombstone includes an epitaph - "the bravest of the brave" - quoting the compliment that Col. John S. Mosby paid him during and after the war.

Virginia Military Institute cadet Bolling Walker Barton (1846-1924) fought in the 1864 Battle of New Market.