Confederate Rest - Point Clear, AL
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PharmD93
N 30° 28.843 W 087° 55.241
16R E 411631 N 3372415
A Confederate Cemetary in Pt. Clear, AL.
Waymark Code: WM283J
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2007
Views: 113
The Grand Hotel and the old Gunnison House that was located by the Fairhope Public Pier served as a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Vicksburg during the Civil War. The Confederate Rest Cemetery commemorates more than 300 Confederate soldiers who died while in the hospital. The original tract of seven acres included markers erected to the Unknown Confederate Dead. The records of the soldiers were kept in the hotel until a fire in 1869, when the identities of those buried in Confederate Rest were lost.
Marker Name: Confederate Rest
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
A Confederate Cemetary close to Mobile, AL
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1987
Marker Number: Not listed
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