Salute! Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia where approximately 700 Confederate soldiers are buried in almost entirely unmarked graves (see photos)! Many died in the fighting around Richmond or while hospitalized at the nearby General Hospital Number 1 (the City Almshouse) during the War. Also buried here are 14 girls killed in the 1863 Laboratory explosion on Brown's Island (see photos), Chief Justice John Marshall (see photos), Charlotte Wickham Lee (Robert E Lee's daughter-in-law), etc, etc.
Shockoe Hill Cemetery (the first owned and maintained by the city of Richmond) opened in 1822. It was one of three cemeteries on Richmond’s northern edge, including the Hebrew Cemetery and a free-black and slave burial ground. Shockoe Hill was for several decades the favored cemetery for Richmond’s elite, especially after the interment of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.
Between 1861 and 1864, General Hospital No. 1—the Alms House Hospital—was located in the imposing brick city poorhouse (built in 1860) just north of here. The cemetery became many Confederate soldiers’ last resting place, especially those who died at the hospital. Near the end of the war, the building served as the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets barracks. Cadets too young to march away watched from upper-story windows as Richmond burned on April 2-3, 1865.
All Southern states (except Arkansas) are represented here by soldiers killed in battle. Including both wartime casualties and veterans. Fourteen of the dozens of girls and young women killed in the March 13, 1863, explosion at the Confederates States Laboratory on Brown’s Island are also here.
A prominent granite pyramid placed by the UDC in 1938 serves as a monument marking the graves of several hundred of these soldiers, both Confederate and Union, though the Union prisoners of war buried nearby were later moved to Richmond National Cemetery between 1866 and 1867. The cemetery, spanning 12.7 acres, is part of the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District, listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
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Shockoe Hill Cemetery (the first owned and maintained by the city of Richmond) opened in 1822. It was one of three cemeteries on Richmond’s northern edge, including the Hebrew Cemetery and a free-black and slave burial ground. Shockoe Hill was for several decades the favored cemetery for Richmond’s elite, especially after the interment of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.
Between 1861 and 1864, General Hospital No. 1—the Alms House Hospital—was located in the imposing brick city poorhouse (built in 1860) just north of here. The cemetery became many Confederate soldiers’ last resting place, especially those who died at the hospital. Near the end of the war, the building served as the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets barracks. Cadets too young to march away watched from upper-story windows as Richmond burned on April 2-3, 1865.
All Southern states (except Arkansas) are represented here by soldiers killed in battle. Including both wartime casualties and veterans. Fourteen of the dozens of girls and young women killed in the March 13, 1863, explosion at the Confederates States Laboratory on Brown’s Island are also here.
A prominent granite pyramid placed by the UDC in 1938 serves as a monument marking the graves of several hundred of these soldiers, both Confederate and Union, though the Union prisoners of war buried nearby were later moved to Richmond National Cemetery between 1866 and 1867. The cemetery, spanning 12.7 acres, is part of the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District, listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
#cemetery #richmond #dixie #South #southern
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