Beech Grove

[mt155]

Beech Grove CSA Cemetery holds some fellows that fell during the opening day of the Tullahoma Campaign in 1863. The other two 1863 campaigns seem to get more attention and Tullahoma is overlooked.

 

[1stMN]

Great photos, thank you for sharing!

 

[MRB1863]

Beautiful photos of a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Legion Para]

The following website shows photographs of some of the headstones at Beech Grove Cemetery.

Charles Henry Johnston, Company F, 4th Kentucky Infantry CSA is one of them and his date of death is April 3 1863. Johnston died before the Tullahoma Campaign of 1863. I haven't checked any of the others.

https://rutherfordcemetery.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/beech-grove-confederate-graveyard/

 

[richard]

The cemetery is owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They have restored the original graves of the residences in the area that were buried there before the war. In the process of doing the restorations, they found a few interesting items. One of them happened to be a intact Spencer round that was found in the rubble of one of the graves. I must say that that did a wonderful job. If you are on I 24 traveling to or from Nashville to Chattanooga, it is a nice rest stop at the 97 mile marker. There are several markers that relate to the battle of Hoovers Gap which took place at the site of the cemetery. There is a picnic shelter and restrooms.