Confederate Cemetery
After the end of the Civil War and the battles around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania there were a number of grave and burial sites scattered around what had been battlefields. These Confederate Sons would have been lost and forgotten had the Spotsylvania Memorial Association been formed and in 1866 the Confederate Cemetery was created.
Some 784 soldiers have been reinterred in the new cemetery, organised by state (including Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee) where soldier names were known but there are a number of unknown graves. Headstones were paid for by the Federal Government and in the centre of the cemetery a statue of a Confederate Soldier stands watch over the dead.
