(south face)
Atlanta • Chickamauga • Murfreesboro
This monument is dedicated to the memory of all DeKalb Countians who served the Confederacy. They sacrificed much for the cause of an independent South. Their courage and patriotism . . . — — Map (db m75792) WM
[Front]
Shiloh
To the memory of the faithful
Confederate soldiers of Dyer County
Number of battles fought by them
Confederate
[side] Perryville • Chickamauga • Missionary Ridge • Belmont • Richmond • Peach . . . — — Map (db m221760) WM
To honor the
Confederate compatriots
who sleep eternally in
this hallowed ground
Erected and dedicated
November 30, 2004, the 140th
anniversary of the Battle of
Franklin and death of Brig. Gen.
Otho French Strahl, by the . . . — — Map (db m221785) WM
Southern Battle Flag St. Andrews Cross emblazons blue Across a blood-red field, Adorned by stars of purest white; Our Southern battle shield. fly, dear flag, o'er heroes brave Both living and departed; Steadfast to the Southern Cause Our . . . — — Map (db m81520) HM
Front In memory of the men who fought here October 5, 1862 BATTLE OF DAVIS BRIDGE Poor is the nation that has no heroes Shameful is the nation that has them and forgets. CONFEDERATE Back Duty is the . . . — — Map (db m62459) WM
(West face)
This monument erected in honor of the gallant Confederate soldiers of Hardin County who
fought, died and suffered during the War Between the States 1861-1865. Sacred is the memory of the men and women of Hardin County for the . . . — — Map (db m168650) WM
Shiloh Church, biblically known as "place of peace," was built in 1851. Ironically this small log church gave name to the famous Battle of Shiloh and became the site of some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War. On Sunday morning, April 6, . . . — — Map (db m22023) HM
Front Dedicated to
Freeman's Battery
Forrest's Artillery
and
Samuel L. Freeman.
General Nathan Bedford
Forrest's First Artillery
Captain Freeman's Battery
fought near here
during the Battle of
Parker's Crossroads
Dec. . . . — — Map (db m72182) HM WM
FrontDedicated to Morton's Battery Forrest's Artillery and Captain John W. Morton, Jr. The Confederacy's Youngest Captain of Artillery Morton's Battery fought near here December 31, 1862 in the Battle of Parker's Crossroads, TN. with Two . . . — — Map (db m72204) HM WM
This monument dedicated in memory of the men who served in the Confederate States Army from Macon County, Tennessee during the war between the states 1861-1865
These units were comprised of local men serving in the Army of Tennessee
2nd TN . . . — — Map (db m68526) WM
Red Boiling Springs served as a station during the early part of the war between the states. The 30th TN. Infantry regiment was officially organized Oct. 22nd 1861 with the following companies enrolled here.
Co. A, Co. B were men from Robertson . . . — — Map (db m180016) HM
This area was on a route used by Federal and Confederate troops as they made maneuvers between the Northern and Southern states. As they traveled thru, their sick and wounded were often left here for treatment. Dr. James Carson Weir, from . . . — — Map (db m39580) HM
Confederate States of America
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the gallant men of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A., commanded by Col. William H. Jackson, and to these men of the 7th who fell September 1, 1862, at the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m194038) WM
In Memorium
Pro Artis et Focis
(For hearth and home)
Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank
Not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity
But in simple, obedience to duty
As they understood it, these men suffered all . . . — — Map (db m82329) WM
The Confederate Circle at historic Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1890. The reburial of Confederate dead from across the county here took place the following year.
Among those buried here is Robert James Campbell Gailbreath . . . — — Map (db m69176) HM
Within this circle lies the remains of over 2,000 gallant Confederate soldiers who gave their lives in the battles in and around Murfreesboro during The War Between The States 1861-1865. They were first buried on the battlefield where they died . . . — — Map (db m69177) HM
(Side one):
On Oct. 11, 1863, Gen. James R. Chalmers, with a force of about 3000 Confederate cavalrymen, consisting of the 7th TN, 13th TN, 18th MS, 2nd MO, 2nd AR, and 3rd MS, approached Collierville from the south along Mt. Pleasant Road. . . . — — Map (db m63137) HM
To those who gave so much to their cause during the great conflict. Brave men lie beneath this ground; some in mass graves near the battlefields where they fell, some in lonely unmarked graves, and some in untended cemeteries across the south. The . . . — — Map (db m200769) WM
(side 1)
On April 15, 1861, eighty men from Collierville organized the Wigfall Grays to oppose President Lincoln’s call for volunteers to invade the South. The company was named in honor of Senator Louis T. Wigfall who was well known for . . . — — Map (db m82843) HM
On June 28, 1900, a group of over 100 sons and grandsons of Confederate veterans met in Memphis to organize a local chapter, or "camp" of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, later known as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Following . . . — — Map (db m82854) HM
Confederate Soldiers Rest is located in the Fowler Section of Historic Elmwood Cemetery. Over 1000 Confederate Soldiers and Veterans are buried here. An article in The Memphis Daily Appeal on 27 June 1861 stated that this plot was dedicated to the . . . — — Map (db m51628) HM
Union and Confederate forces clashed near here again on February 3, 1863, almost one year after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked Dover’s 800-man Federal garrison after he failed to disrupt Union shipping on the . . . — — Map (db m173094) HM
On this site was formerly located the Bristol general Confederate Hospital. It was housed in the former Exchange Hotel erected in 1858 (later known as the Nickels House). The building was demolished in about 1898. Sick and wounded soldiers were . . . — — Map (db m157955) HM
On December 13, 1864 approx. 300
Confederate cavalrymen from 2nd Ky.
Cav. under Col. R. Morgan delayed the
advancing 5,500 Union cavalry under
Gen. Stoneman enroute to Saltville,
Va.. This monument is dedicated to
those brave . . . — — Map (db m108203) HM
This Monument erected in honor of the gallant Confederate Soldiers of Wayne County who fought, died and suffered in the War for Southern Independence. 1861-1865
Confederate Units Formed in Wayne County
2nd (Biffle’s) Tenn. Cavalry BTN. . . . — — Map (db m53554) HM
Hudgins Cemetery
Established in 1876 by William J. Hudgins at the
burial of his son Felix and later deeded for a community burial ground in 1900. Hudgins Cemetery now encompasses 5.5 acres with additional donations of land from the Stinson, . . . — — Map (db m205507) HM
After the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the Union Army withdrew into Nashville. Casualties of over 8,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lay upon the field. In pursuit of the withdrawing Union forces, Confederate General John Bell Hood . . . — — Map (db m69042) HM
In the spring of 1866, the bodies of Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Franklin were exhumed from their temporary graves and reburied here, on this two-acre plot adjacent to Carnton, home of John and Carrie McGavock. Over about ten weeks, . . . — — Map (db m83183) HM
This cemetery is located within part of a 40-acre grant of land given to the city of San Antonio by the King of Spain. The property was later subdivided into twenty-nine separate cemeteries by city aldermen, and this area was designated as City . . . — — Map (db m30150) HM
The John A. Wharton Camp of Confederate Veterans purchased cemetery land June 27, 1898 and more in 1903 and 1927. The total is about 15 acres. 37 Confederate veterans are buried here.
On Feb. 11, 1919 F. E. Acton, Y. M. Edwards, E. G. Ward, W. . . . — — Map (db m50164) HM
Established in the 1890's by John A. Wharton Camp, U. C. V.; burial ground for Confederate veterans and families. After increase of acreage, use of cemetery was extended to public. Veterans of 4 wars; 1900 hurricane victims as well as prominent . . . — — Map (db m110259) HM
Side A
Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it. For four weary years these brave men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and . . . — — Map (db m72290) WM
under the auspices of the Ex-Confederate Association of Grayson Co. Tex.
Organized July 21, 1888
Changed to
Mildred Lee Camp U.C.V. May 21, 1892.
Sacred to the memory of our Confederate Dead: true patriots. They fought for home and . . . — — Map (db m73252) HM
UCV Erected to the memory of the Confederate soldiers by the people of Kaufman County. 1861-1865 No soldiers ever fought more bravely on the field, nor suffered greater privations for their country. They went down into battle at the command of . . . — — Map (db m63755) WM
Built with stones from the original fort, this monument was completed November 3, 1995 on the 144th birthday of Fort Belknap at its present location. Erected to the memory of the U.S., Texas and Confederate troops who served here. Dedicated by the . . . — — Map (db m93534) WM
The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where . . . — — Map (db m8605) HM
The Marshall House stood upon this site, and within the building on the early morning of May 24, 1861 James W. Jackson was killed by Federal soldiers while defending his property and personal rights as stated in the verdict of the coroners . . . — — Map (db m65490) HM
Appomattox Invincibles Company A, 20th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery Formerly Company A, 44th Virginia Infantry Appomattox Greys Company H 18th Virginia Infantry Appomattox Rangers Company H, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Liberty . . . — — Map (db m29997) WM
Deo Vindice
To the Confederate
Soldiers and Sailors of
Bedford County. 1861-1865
Bedford honors her heroes;
proudly rejoicing with the living;
sincerely mourning the dead.
Their history is it's brightest page,
exhibiting the . . . — — Map (db m43042) HM
To the gallant Confederate
soldiers of Buchanan County
Virginia 1861–1865.
10th Kentucky Cavalry Co.'s F, G, H, & I
21st Virginia Cavalry – Co. E
21st Virginia Infantry Battalion – Co. E
22nd Virginia Cavalry – Co. B
34th Virginia . . . — — Map (db m228609) WM
First named Ft. Howlett, the battery was renamed after Col. Olin M. Dantzler, who was killed on June 2, 1864, in an attempt to capture Ft. Dutton. Leading the 22nd South Carolina Inf. the attack failed. Battery Dantzler played a major role in . . . — — Map (db m16066) HM
Here, on May 10, 1864, as part of Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 3400 Federals and 2000 Confederates fought the Battle of Chester Station. This monument is erected in their memory by the Chester Station Camp #1503. Sons of Confederate . . . — — Map (db m17092) HM
Construction of the Howlett Line
The earthworks here were constructed after the Battle of Ware Bottom Church. Prior to that, this area was the advanced picket line for the Army of the James and would have consisted of a series of rifle . . . — — Map (db m73982) HM
Olin Miller Dantzler (1826-1824) was a native of South Carolina. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia in 1846. He married Caroline Clover on July 10, 1850, and they had five children. Prior to the war Dantzler served as a South . . . — — Map (db m16060) HM
On Jan. 23, 1865, the ironclads Virginia II, Richmond, and Fredericksburg, with five smaller vessels, descended the James River in an effort to attack the Union supply depot at City Point. A reliable report indicated that recent . . . — — Map (db m164327) HM
On the evening of May 16, 1864 the Army of the James completed its retreat from The Second Battle of Drewry's Bluff and returned to its earthworks in Bermuda Hundred. Too disorganized to effectively pursue the retreating Federals, the Confederates . . . — — Map (db m164336) HM
Following the Battle of Ware Bottom Church on May 20, 1864, Confederate forces began digging the earthworks that would become known as the Howlett Line. Named after the Howlett house, which stood at the northernmost point, the line stretched across . . . — — Map (db m16096) HM
Traveler was tethered on this spot June 21, 1863, as General Robert E. Lee paused on his march to Gettysburg. He attended services here in Grace Episcopal Church. Tablet placed by Sycamore Society 1986 Replaced by E.V. White Chapter, MOSB and . . . — — Map (db m173645) HM
To the memory of A.P. Hill, Lt - Gen CSA
He was killed about 600 yards northwardly from this marker, being shot by a small band of stragglers from the Federal lines on the morning of April 2nd, 1865.
Erected by A.P. Hill Camp Sons of Confederate . . . — — Map (db m3595) HM
The following North Carolina units honorably and gallantly participated in the action at Reams Station on August 25, 1864 Infantry Lane's Brigade Seventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-Eighth, Thirty-Third, Thirty-Seventh Scale's Brigade Thirteenth, . . . — — Map (db m13792) HM
On this site December 9, 1864 Union General Gouvereur K. Warren with 28,000 troops at his command clashed with troops of Confederate Generals Wade Hampton and Wm. H. F. Lee, in a failed attempt to destroy the railroad bridge and tracks going south. . . . — — Map (db m39795) HM
This gun is a memorial to the Veterans of the 1914-1918 World War I
A captured Imperial German Army 150 mm field artillary cannon manufactured by Kkupp Works in 1917
Many thousands of Americans and Allied young men gave their lives in . . . — — Map (db m19181) HM
This monument is dedicated to honor the memory of the 51 Confederate Soldiers buried here in the Barton Street Cemetery. They died in Fredericksburg, Virginia between the months of October 1861 and March 1862. The Rev. Alfred M. Randolph of St. . . . — — Map (db m39824) HM
Brigadier General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Wilcox’s Alabama Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
Near here on June 27, 1862, three Confederate brigades under General Cadmus M. Wilcox ascended this hill, broke . . . — — Map (db m16391) HM
Almost every Confederate soldier who died in a Richmond hospital during the war was buried in one of three local cemeteries: Hollywood, Oakwood, or Shockoe Hill. Although Hollywood Cemetery is the best known because of the many prominent men buried . . . — — Map (db m61820) HM
Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.M., G.C.M.G. British soldier of the highest rank, says: “The fame of Stonewall Jackson is no longer the exclusive property of Virginia and the South; it has become the . . . — — Map (db m165934) HM
Established 1865
Internments 54
Known 1
Unknown 53
This Ball's Bluff National Military Cemetery Plaque was replaced and the gate restored in 1996 by the
Clinton Hatcher Camp No. 21
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Leesburg, . . . — — Map (db m168055) HM WM
Forward Monument:
Confederate Prisoners of War who died in Federal Prison in Newport News Va between April and July 1865 are interred here. This memorial was donated by Mildred Rhodes Duncan Thomas Purnell Duncan, Jr.
Front of . . . — — Map (db m10451) HM
The monument that stands before you was erected in June 1900 by the members of the Magruder Camp No. 36, United Confederate Veterans, to honor the 163 Confederate soldiers reinterred at this site who had died in the POW Camp next to Camp Butler on . . . — — Map (db m10446) HM
Built by Nathaniel Gordon, 1787. Visited by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Philip and James Barbour, Clark, Rives, Randolph, Wirt, Waddell, and other celebrities of Revolutionary, post-Revolutionary, and Confederate War periods. Lafayette . . . — — Map (db m4794) HM
Having remained with his command
in the vicinity of Winchester since the
Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam, by
November 22, 1862, Gen. Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson was again on
the march. With more than 32,000
soldiers, Jackson’s force made . . . — — Map (db m16453) HM
At this place located by participants in the Battle of the Crater, this road, known as the Jerusalem Plank Road, was crossed by a covered way leading eastwardly to the ravine in rear of the Confederate breastworks which run northwardly from . . . — — Map (db m180611) HM
Wooden ships became helpless shortly before noon on March 8, 1862 when the CSS Virginia, the world's first steam-driven iron-clad vessel to be used in warfare, floated out to do battle against them. The next day the Northern ship USS Monitor arrived . . . — — Map (db m36933) HM
In 1885, after the War Between the States, the local veterans of Portsmouth and Norfolk County formed the Stonewall Camp, United Confederate Veterans. This Camp remained active until 1929 when the last three members bequeathed their assets to the . . . — — Map (db m36949) HM
General Lee, on his journey to Richmond from Appomattox, stopped at Winsor, his brother's farm, to spend the night. But as the house was crowded, he pitched his tent here, the last night he spent under canvas. He took breakfast with the Gilliams, . . . — — Map (db m18338) HM
Welcome to the Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail. This 1.6 mile linear park is the Roanoke Valley’s first rails-to-trails project converting a former railroad right-of-way into a hiking and biking trail. The project’s master plan presents an . . . — — Map (db m15104) HM
Dedicated to the Confederate Soldiers of Scott County by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Let not ignorance of fact or time overshadow their acts of patriotism, bravery, and courage for Virginia and the Confederacy.
C.S.A. ”Deo . . . — — Map (db m135670) WM
[Sign at the base of the monument:]
The monument in front of you replaced an existing wooden pillar.
The inscriptions on the monument read:
On the side facing you — East
Pt. Geo. W. Summers and Sergt. Newton Koontz . . . — — Map (db m158192) HM
The Town Run is to your right. One source of the stream comes from a spring several blocks north at Hupp's Homestead. Bruce Hupp had his commercial watercress beds there. Often he boarded the train at Strasburg Depot in the morning, delivered his . . . — — Map (db m3458) HM
(Front):South Carolina McGowan's Brigade Brig. Gen. Samuel McGowan 1st S.C. Infantry Col. Comillus W. McCreary Orr's Rifles Lt. Col. George McD. Miller 12th S.C. Infantry Maj. Thomas F. Clyburne 13th S.C. Infantry Col. Benjamin T. . . . — — Map (db m19073) WM
May 23, 1862, General Jackson surprised General Banks’ forces in and around Front Royal, capturing many prisoners and army supplies and forcing Banks to flee in disorder out of the Shenandoah Valley into Maryland. This was the first move in . . . — — Map (db m171046) HM
The Great Seal of the Confederacy was presented by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in memory of the Confederate Veterans 15 August 1963 — — Map (db m158605) WM
Exploring Fort Mulligan.
A trail system with interpretive exhibits describe the Fort’s construction, usage and strategic importance during the Civil War. Most of the site is wheelchair accessible, however several areas are inaccessible . . . — — Map (db m155441) HM
On the night of October 16, 1859, Heyward Shepherd, an industrious and respected Colored freeman, was mortally wounded by John Brown's raiders in pursuance of his duties as an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He became the first . . . — — Map (db m126128) HM
Side A Confederate Soldiers in Elmwood Cemetery Over 114 Confederate soldiers who were killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) September 17, 1862, or later died of wounds in Shepherdstown, were buried here. They were from the . . . — — Map (db m154058) HM
On Wednesday, September 17, 1862, twelve-year-old Mary Bedinger, asleep at her home Poplar Grove outside Shepherdstown, was awakened by the roar of cannons. Confederate and Union forces in position near Sharpsburg, Maryland, just across the Potomac . . . — — Map (db m41694) HM
Near this site on May 1, 1862, Battle of the Henry Clark House occurred. Lt. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes’ 23rd Ohio Vol. Inf. engaged Confederates under Col. Walter Jenifer. Captain Richard B. Foley, commanding the “Flat Top Copperheads,” the “eyes and . . . — — Map (db m42173) HM
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