City Cemetery/Confederate Cemetery (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

 cemetery, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, military cemetery

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The Fredericksburg City Cemetery and Confederate Cemetery are surrounded by a common brick wall. Just after the War for Southern Independence, a group of Fredericksburg women bought the land next to the Fredericksburg City Cemetery. This women's association had soldiers buried anew at what is now the Confederate Cemetery. Several Southern states later supplied headstones which replaced the original cedar posts. They dedicated a bronze memorial about 20 years after the war for the Confederate dead. The same ladies' association continues to maintain the cemetery and they put on a big to-do every Memorial Day. There are more than 3000 Confederate soldiers buried here, and more than 2000 of those are still unknown. The local library has an online database to research the soldiers buried there.

Six Confederate generals and more than 3,300 Southern soldiers lie buried here; 2,184 of them are unknown. A complete roster of known soldiers buried here can be found online at www.historypoint.org/confed/. A life size zinc statue with granite base of a soldier on dress parade, an impressive monument, was dedicated in 1884 to the "Confederate Dead." The cemetery is open daily, with entry through the gates on Washington Avenue

Price: Free
(540) 373-1776

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
NRHP #100003480