Unknown Confederate Graves

Unknown Confederate Graves. . , "As fighting intensified in central Georgia during the summer of 1864, caravans of wagons evacuated sick and wounded Confederate soldiers from Macon’s overcrowded Ocmulgee Hospital. Caravans coming down the Old Savannah Road stopped at this cemetery and buried soldiers who had died en route to hospitals further south. , Headquartered at Mt. Vernon in January 1865, Confederate Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Ferguson and over 1000 cavalrymen from Alabama and Miss. conducted patrols and skirmishes with casualties in this area. None of these Unknowns are believed to be local men." , "Ferguson's Brigade later served as personal escort to Jefferson Davis during his retreat from Virginia to Georgia. In April 1865, the Fourth Michigan Cavalry patrolled this area north of the Altamaha River, but failed to capture members of the Confederate Cabinet who crossed the river and escaped to Florida and Cuba. , After the War, the United Confederate Veterans decorated these Unknowns with metal UCV crosses, though many crosses have been lost to time. The exact number of soldiers buried here, and their identities, are now known but to GOD." , Placed in observance of the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States, 2011-2015.