Cemetery for Unkown Conferate Soldiers in Kingston, GA./USA - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

Here sleep, known but to God, 250 Confederate and two Federal soldiers, most of whom died of wounds, disease and sickness in the Confederate hospitals located here -- 1862-1864.
These men were wounded in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in the Dalton-Kingston Campaign.
Surgeon B.W. Avent was in charge of these hospitals. Hospitals were moved to Atlanta in May of 1864 to avoid capture by Federals. These hospitals later used by the Federals. More Union troops were buried here originally but those graves were opened and transferred to the National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia after the war.

This cemetery is also the site that inspired the first Confederate Memorial Day. The ladies of Kingston wanted to decorate the graves of the confederate soldiers buried here. Since the town was being occupied at the time by Federal forces the general in charge agreed to let them do it but only if they agreed to also decorate the graves of the Federal troops buried there also. This led in later years to the US holiday "Decoration Day" that later became officially called Memorial Day and is still celebrated each year in the US to honor those who served in the armed forces of the United States.

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