Gloucester in Gloucester County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

To the Confederate Dead of Gloucester

Front of Monument image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Beverly Pfingsten, April 18, 2008

1. Front of Monument

West Panel

Inscription.

Col. Powhatan R. Page,
26th VA. Infantry.
Lieut. Col. Fielding L. Taylor,
12th VA. Infantry.
Major John W. Puller,
6th VA. Cav.
Major Patrick H. Fitzhugh,
26th VA. Infantry
Major John Fells,
6th VA. Cav.
Captain John L. Hibble,
26th VA. Infantry.
Captain Thomas A. Robins,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
1st Lieut. Wm J. Baytop,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
2nd Lieut. Robert D. Miller,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
2nd Lieut. James W. Rowe,
Co. F, 26th VA Infantry.
Sergeants
Wm Ap Catesby Jones
Signal Corps.
Thomas W. Banks,
Frank G. Bridges,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
Thomas J. Hibble,
Horace Harwood,
Co. A.
JOhn H. White,
Co. B.
Thomas Robins,
Co. F, 26th VA. Infantry.
Corporals
Wm J. Pointer,
Co. A, 5th Cav.
Richard Ahern,
Co. A.
Eldridge Rowe,
Co. F, 26th VA. Infantry.
1st Lieut. Wm Bayse,
Artillery.

Privates
John W. Dews,
Lewis Hogg,
John W. Stubblefield,
Claibourne Williams,
John W. Leigh,
John W. Robins,
James H. Woodland,
Henry Harwood,
John W. Pointer,
Co. A.
J. N. South,
R. J. Fary,
W. Summerson,
F. Howard,
J. Boss,
A. Summerson,
R. Dutton,
W. Mason,
H. Bristow,
C.
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Kemp,
John Edwards,
T. J. Goode,
Washington Goode,
E. C. Brushwood,
James Lawson,
Peter Bristow,
Mathew Kemp,
George Soles,
J. Rilee,
R. H. Gwyn,
J. B. Foster,
A. C. Groome,
John White,
C. Coates,
W. Shackleford,
Gideon Rilee,
Joseph Worrells,
James Bristow,
James Ware,
Co. B.
Albert H. Rowe,
Samuel C. Smith,
James West,
Co. E.

Privates
Wm. H. Heywood,
James H. Ransone,
Alexander Deal,
Charles Thompson, Co. E.
John W. Rose,
James P. Messereau,
Ambrose West,
Thomas Belvin,
David West,
Wm H. Freeman,
John J. Cooper,
Thomas Mason,
James F. Elliott,
Vincent Jenkins,
James F. Hobday,
Thos J. Henderson,
Jacob Sparrow,
Lorenzo Rowe,
Aaron Walker,
Wm F. Howard,
James Belvin,
John Fleming,
Co. F, 26th VA. Infantry.
Edward Amory,
Wm P. Bristow,
John Belote,
Austin Brown,
Robert Cox,
Giles B. Cooke,
Thomas C. Edwards,
Thomas A. Massey,
Richard A. Norton,
John H. Pate,
Andrew P. Rowe,
James H. Waddle,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
James H. Butler
Co. K, 34th VA Infantry.
Marcus M. Simcoe,
Jefferson Dunstan,
George W. Cary,
Isaac Evans,
Co. A, 5th VA. Cavalry.

Privates.
R. Brooke
Photographed by Beverly Pfingsten, April 18, 2008

2. Confederate Monument
East Panel.
Jones,
Jefferson Dutton,
Elijah Dutton,
Henry T. Booker,
James Cavan,
George Glenn,
V.D. Edwards,
Sergt. C. J. Ware,
J. C. Rowe,
Walter F. Leigh,
James B. Hughes,
Co. A, 5th VA. Cav.
James B. Cooke,
Co. H, 35th VA. Infantry.
R. C. Walker,
S. R. Medlicott,
M. C. Hibble,
Co. C.
James H. Ransone,
Thomas Corr,
Co. D, 24th VA. Cav.
R. A. Moore,
Howitzer Battalion.
Joseph H. Robins,
Infantry.
Warner Lewis Selden,
Ashby's Cav.
Henry C. Selden,
Co. B, 3rd VA. Cav.
Wm Kirkmeyer,
Robert Hott,
Nelson Artillery.
James W. Pitts,
Co. A, 6th VA. Cav.
Archibald Webster,
Unknown.
B. P. Newcomb,
W. H. German,
Co. A, 34th VA. Infantry.
P. H. Wright,
Infantry.
Robert F. Liall,
Charles Vaughan

Erected by their surviving comrades and friends.
Plant the fair column o'er the vacant grave, a soldier's honors let a soldier have.
1889

Erected 1889.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.

Location. 37° 24.891′ N, 76° 31.771′ W. Memorial is in Gloucester, Virginia, in Gloucester County. It can be reached from Gloucester Courthouse Grounds.

To the Confederate Dead of Gloucester Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, August 29, 2026

3. To the Confederate Dead of Gloucester Marker

South Panel.

Business US 17 and Blair Road. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Gloucester VA 23061, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is on the Middle Peninsula

and in the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in the Tidewater,

in the Chesapeake Bay Region,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Gloucester in the Civil War (a few steps from this marker); Court House (a few steps from this marker); In Memoriam John Clayton (a few steps from this marker); Pvt. James Daniel Gardner (a few steps from this marker); The Birdsall Building (within shouting distance of this marker); Werowocomoco (within shouting distance

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, August 29, 2026

4. To the Confederate Dead of Gloucester Marker

North Panel.

of this marker); Gloucester Courthouse (within shouting distance of this marker); A Sacred Place (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gloucester.

Full view of monument. and courthouse grounds image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Beverly Pfingsten, April 18, 2008

5. Full view of monument. and courthouse grounds

Credits. This page was last revised on October 28, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 1, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. This page has been viewed 2,220 times since then and 70 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 1, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. 3, 4. submitted on October 28, 2026, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. 5. submitted on May 1, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.