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Civil War Burial Sites - 7/13/2007 12:50:41 AM

Gil R.

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I'm curious, which cemeteries, tombs, monuments and grave sites stand out in your minds as most interesting or impressive? Which are especially worth visiting? Which have interesting stories associated with them?

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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/13/2007 12:52:04 AM

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I'll go first. At Chickamauga, I found that just off the road there is a grave of one soldier (a private, I think) who, because he was a local, was buried on the battlefield -- and he is the only person buried there.

I got the idea for this thread when, while editing Stonewall Jackson's bio, I discovered that his amputated arm is buried separately, not too far from where he lost it:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2739

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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/14/2007 5:35:14 AM

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Gil,
You know about Oakwood in Raleigh. Some impressive markers there. Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond would have to be on the list as would Arlington, but those are the obvious ones.
In St. Louis, the biggies are Calvary and Bellefontaine, which are next to each other, and Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. They've got some neat old markers there.
Sherman and others are at Calvary. Bellefontaine boasts James B. Eads, who built bridges and ironclads. JB has some brevet generals and many others dating back to the post's founding. The oldest graves overlook the Mississippi River. I've gone exploring at JB while visiting my dad's grave.
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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/14/2007 5:51:15 AM

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The monument in Chattanooga to Andrew's Raid (where some of the raiders are buried) really stands out... for obvious reasons.

Photo: http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/history/andrews_dougdesmond.jpg

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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/17/2007 4:32:34 PM

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The Shiloh battlefield has several burial trenches where soldiers were buried in hasty pits after the battle. Union were removed later, but the confederate dead remains, anonomously bunched together several hundred at a time. Sobering reality of war.

Not the civil war and not burial sites but I've always been impressed with The Big Horn Battlefield in Montana. Little white markers show where each bluecoat body was found after the battle - little clumps together here and there across these rolling plains. You can really picture Custer's last stand - desperate final fights for their lives where groups of soldiers tried to make a break and fell together.

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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/17/2007 6:39:05 PM

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Gil,
You know about Oakwood in Raleigh.

Oakwood is nice. As I recall most of those confederates buried there died during the war in the hospital there.

On the capital grounds in Raleigh, there are some guns and monuments...my favorite is the statue of the Ensign decapitated by a Spanish Naval shell at Santiago in 1898. His bronze statue represents him with an intact head, but it seems like maybe a glass head or something might represent him better.

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RE: Civil War Burial Sites - 7/22/2007 5:54:29 AM

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There is also the Hebrew Confederate Cemetery in Richmond. It is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world located outside of Israel.

And while we are at it here is the Jewish Confederate Monument, also in Richmond.

The South giving honors to the men who served her cause.

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