Woodlawn Cemetery - Terre Haute, IN
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vhasler
N 39° 28.839 W 087° 24.929
16S E 464267 N 4370199
A memorial to 11 Confederate cavalry soldiers who died while prisoners of the Civil War is located in this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM7CD1
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2009
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Brief description from the guidebook:
“In Woodlawn Cemetery, N 3rd St. between Locust St. and 8th Ave., is a monument to 11 Confederate soldiers who died here as prisoners in the Civil War.”
---- Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, 1941
From Veterans Affairs website we learn:
The Confederate Monument is located at the intersection of Central and Wabash Avenues within Woodlawn Cemetery. Erected in 1912, the 11’ tall granite monument commemorates 11 Confederate prisoners of war who died in a local prison and are interred in Woodlawn. The names of the Confederates are inscribed in bronze tablets attached to the monument. Ten of the 11 soldiers were members of Gantt’s 9th battalion, Tennessee Cavalry.
9th Cavalry Battalion was organized and mustered into Confederate service at Camp Maury, near Nashville, Tennessee, in December, 1861. Its six companies were from Maury, Hickman, and Wayne counties. All of the soldiers reported died from typhus while imprisoned.