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The cemetery is located on the grounds of Emory and Henry College. "Some of the dead were sent home."--P.8.
Information compiled from the old Confederate military service records in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., and cemetery records.
Information compiled from Record Group 109, compiled Confederate military service records, in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., and cemetery records.
Vol. 2 lists the names of over 10,500 Confederate soldiers that died during the Civil War. Some veterans are included. Also over one hundred Union soldiers that were buried along with the Confederates. The deaths of these Union soldiers were not included in the United States Quartermaster's 27-volume Roll of Honor series. The majority of these Federal soldier's remains were never moved to a national cemetery. Also included are the names of servants, Slaves, and even one African-American Confederate buried in these cemeteries.
Information compiled from Record Group 109, compiled Confederate military service records, in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., and cemetery records.
The citizens of Washington County, Virginia gave up their sons and daughters to the Confederate cause of the Civil War. Contributing six Confederate generals as well as Union officers, the region is emblematic of communities throughout the nation that sacrificed during the war. Though the sounds of cannon fire and gunshots were only heard at a distance, Washington County was the breadbasket for Confederate armies. From the fields surrounding Abingdon to the coveted salt works in Saltville, Union Generals were constantly eyeing the region, resulting in the Saltville Massacre and the burning of Abingdon's famous courthouse. Historian Michael Shaffer gives a detailed narrative of Washington County during the Civil War, painting vivid images of heroism on and off the battlefield.
Information compiled from cemetery records and old military records found in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Confederate Cemeteries: Ball's Bluff National Cemetery, Williamsburg (Bruton Parish Church), Courtland Baptist Church, Alexandria National Cemetery, Covington (Cedar Hill Cemetery), Clark County (Old Chapel), Upperville, Woodstock, Yorktown National Cemetery, Fairfax, Mount Jackson, New Market (Saint Matthews Cemetery), New Market (Zirkle Cemetery), New Market (Cedar Grove Cemetery), New Market (Emmanuel Cemetery), Centreville (Saint John's Episcopal Church), Richmond (Hebrew Confederate Cemetery), Culpeper, Richmond (Shockoe Cemetery), Emory and Henry College, VMI Cadets killed at New Market, City Point National Cemetery (Hopewell), Front Royal (Prospect Hill Cemetery), Richmond (Hollywood Cemetery), Newport News, Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery, Culpeper National Cemetery, New Market (Mount Zion Cemetery)

Mark Hughes

Published: 2002

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Vol. 2 includes a list of burials in these Virginia cemeteries: Ashland Woodland Cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery (Charlottesville), Charlottesville Soldier's [sic] Cemetery (University of Virginia), Five Forks, Barton Street Cemetery (Fredericksburg), Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery, Hampton National Cemetery, Harrisonburg Woodbine Cemetery, Lexington Stonewall Cemetery, Lexington - Virginia Military Institute, Lynchburg Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg Spring Hill Cemetery, Petersburg Blandford Cemetery, Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Staunton Thornrose Cemetery.
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers, nearly 28 percent of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who perished in the war. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women's place in the historical narrative by exploring their role as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition between 1865 and 1915. Although not considered ''political'' or ''public actors,'' upper- and middle-class white women carried out deeply political acts by preparing elaborate burials and holding Memorial Days in a region still occupied by northern soldiers. Janney argues that in identifying themselves as mothers and daughters in mourning, LMA members crafted a sympathetic Confederate position that Republicans, northerners, and, in some cases, southern African Americans could find palatable. Long before national groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for lost Confederates. Janney's exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.