Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery
The Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Fredericksburg in the US state of Virginia .
history
The history of the cemetery goes back to the Civil War . A group of widows from the Ladies Memorial Association , a women's organization for widows founded after the war, bought land in 1867 to bury their fallen Confederate husbands .
In 1884, a Confederate soldier monument was erected in the center of the cemetery. The cemetery and graves are still maintained by the Ladies Memorial Association today. A grave guard is organized by the organization on Memorial Day each year .
The cemetery is located on Washington Avenue and is open daily.
Six generals and more than 3,300 soldiers from the Confederate States are buried here, 2,184 of whom are unknown.
The generals are:
- Seth Maxwell Barton , Brigadier General of the Confederate Army
- Dabney Herndon Maury , Major General in the Confederate Army
- Abner Monroe Perrin , Army General of Northern Virginia
- Daniel Ruggles , Brigadier General of the Confederate Army
- Henry Hopkins Sibley , Confederate Army Brigadier General and head of the New Mexico Campaign
- Carter Littlepage Stevenson , career officer, later Confederate Army officer in Western battles during the Civil War
Of these six officers , only Abner Monroe Perrin died in the battles around Fredericksburg; the rest survived the war and later died.
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Coordinates: 38 ° 18 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 77 ° 27 ′ 59.9 ″ W.