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 ...