Pictured here is the To the Confederate Dead Monument with a view of the Confederate Cemetery
Posted in 19th Century, Civil War
April 19, 2018
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To The Confederate Dead

Pictured here is the side view of the To the Confederate Dead Monument

Inscription:

“In honor of Confederate Soldiers
who died in Fredericksburg Oct 1861 through Mar 1862
and buried in Barton St. Cemetery
No record of re-interment when site reused in 1920.

Dedicated May 1992
by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of
Fredericksburg, Virginia”

Pictured here is the To the Confederate Dead Monument

Research:

The Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery is owned and operated by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Fredericksburg. The site was dedicated May 1870 to the 3,553 Confederate men who were killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg. The Association holds Memorial Day observances, 10:00 a.m. EST.

Unknown Confederates are buried under the Monument to the Confederate Dead. (1)

The surrounding Confederate Cemetery was also founded by the Association, who raised the money to buy the property for the graves. (2) 

The Monument to the Confederate Dead was unveiled on June 10, 1891. General Bradley T. Johnson addressed the audience attending the unveiling, preceded by a prayer by Reverend I. W. Canter.

The statue is made of gray granite and bronze. On June 4, 1874, the Fredericksburg Lodge, A. F. and A. M. the corner-stone was place on the site. The Confederate soldier was designed by George T. Downing, and was cast at the Bridgeport Monumental Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. (3)

The site currently overlooks the University of Mary Washington. The site is surrounded by modern development. (4)

Sources:

(1) History.  Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery and The Ladies’ Memorial Association. Accessed April 19, 2018.  http://fredericksburgconfederatecemetery.org/history/

(2)  De’Onne C. Scott, Postcard History Series: Fredericksburg, (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), 31.

(3) Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed. Monument to the Confederate dead at Fredericksburg, Virginia, unveiled June 10, 1891. Accessed April 19, 2018.  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0276%3Achapter%3D32

(4) John F. Cummings, Images of America: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Court House, (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 122.