Sorry about the slow posting as of late. I've been
traveling, speaking to various groups. On one of my trips, I was speaking to
the Round Table in Lynchburg, Virginia, and got to revisit the Old Lynchburg
City Cemetery. Over the next few days, I'm going to try and tell a few of
stories behind some of the pictures of stones that I captured.
Lynchburg became a vast hospital complex during the war.
There were 31 different structures (based upon a map at the cemetery) that
served as hospitals. An estimated 20,000 men were treated there, with 3,000
deaths (Confederate and a few Federal).
Many of those who died are interred at the Old City
Cemetery. Their graves are marked with simple stone grave markers, carved with
their initials, company and regiment. A link to those buried here can be found
here: http://www.gravegarden.org/cwroster.htm
The photo above is just one of the Confederate monuments in
the cemetery. This monument is dedicated to those who died of smallpox during
the war.
I have visited this cemetery twice: once when I was working
on the book on the 37th NCT, and again in September 2012.
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