Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery
The Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery in Spotsylvania County , in the US state of Virginia , in the United States .
history
After the Civil War ended , many dead from the battle at Spotsylvania Court House remained in constant memory due to hundreds of dead Confederate soldiers lying in primitive graves crisscrossing the nearby battlefields.
Local widows then formed the Spotsylvania Memorial Association .
In 1866 they bought a plot of land about 200 ares in size to be able to bury the dead in a dignified manner. The Association arranged for the reburial of around 600 soldiers on this area. Few of them were buried as unknown. The then US government approved the funding and was responsible for delivering the tombstones .
In the center of the cemetery a granite stone monument was erected with a Confederate soldier symbolically keeping watch over the graves.
Others
The cemetery is on Courthouse Road and is open daily.
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Coordinates: 38 ° 12 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 77 ° 34 ′ 59.3 ″ W.