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 Our Soldiers' Cemetery Posted by:  vhasler
N 38° 45.286 W 078° 38.045
17S E 705586 N 4292221
Cemetery for US Civil War dead
Waymark Code: WMDQQ5
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2012
Views: 9
Inscription:
The Mount Jackson Confederate Hospital’s Cemetery, now called Our Soldiers' Cemetery, was dedicated on May 10, 1866 the third anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s death. The “Memorial and Decoration Day” organized by the local ladies was one of the first such observances in the South. The service began with an address in the church by Major Henry Kyd Douglas, the youngest of Jackson’s staff officers. Afterward, a participant wrote that “ladies, gentlemen and children as well as many ex-Confederates, all carrying wreaths prepared the day before, marched to the cemetery ¾ of a mile north of town to place those wreaths on each of the 400 graves.”
On the west side of Highway US-11 by cemetery entrance. Park across the highway at one of the businesses.
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Marker Number: A-65
Marker Title: Our Soldiers' Cemetery
Marker Location: Along US-11 in Mt. Jackson
County or Independent City: Shenandoah County
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources, 1997
Web Site: Not listed
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