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Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg (also known as Confederate Burial Grounds) is a historic cemetery located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The cemetery is the final resting place of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battles of Lewisburg (May 23, 1862) and Droop Mountain (November 6, 1863). They are buried in a three-foot ...
His orders were to go to Huntersville, West Virginia, and drive the Confederate force commanded by Colonel William L. "Mudwall" Jackson out of Pocahontas County. Another target on his mission was a saltpeter and gunpowder works in Pendleton County, West Virginia, which Averell could attack on his way to Huntersville. Finally, he was to go ...
The Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg contains 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Lewisburg and the Battle of Droop Mountain. It was added to the National Register in 1988. [ 111 ] Because most of those buried are not identified, one author believes there could be many more than the count of 95 typically used.
A burial ground where Confederate and Union dead were buried during the American Civil War lies adjacent to the memorial. [11] The Confederate Memorial is in the form of an obelisk, measuring 4 square feet (0.37 m 2) at its base and 12 feet (3.7 m) in height.
American Civil War portal; This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations.A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred.
Huntersville is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States in the Alleghany Mountains. As of the 2010 census , its population was 73. [ 2 ] It is located six miles east of Marlinton and four miles west of Minnehaha Springs .
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried. The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a ...
The following is a list of West Virginia Confederate Units which were composed mostly or notably by citizens of the 50 counties of western Virginia which eventually became West Virginia. These units, with the exception of the Kentucky units, are designated "Virginia", as were the Union regiments from western Virginia.