KY Cave Hill Cemetery

[NFB22]

On Sunday I explored Cave Hill Cemetery located in Louisville, KY. The cemetery has been used since 1848 and is the final resting place of many prominent individuals including KFC founder Harland Sanders, Muhammad Ali and Revolutionary War veteran and Louisville founder George Rogers Clark.

The site features graves from both the Union and Confederacy. Some of the more prominent Civil War graves include Brigadier General Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General William Ward, Brigadier General James Shackelford and Confederate officer Bennett Young who led the St. Albans Raid.

A portion of the Cave Hill National Cemetery

Information marker at the National Cemetery portion of Cave Hill

Grave of Major General Lovell Rousseau

Another portion of Cave Hill National Cemetery

The grave of Thomas E. Bramlette. Governor of Kentucky during the final years of the war.
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[John Winn]

I grew up in Louisville and have a relative buried there. We use to go there often.

 

[NFB22]

Some other notable Civil War figures that were laid to rest there:

Congressman Horatio Washington Bruce (CSA)
Brigadier General William Preston (CSA)
Confederate officer John Breckinridge Castleman who later served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War
Brigadier General Thomas A. Harris (CSA)

 

[bdtex]

The site features graves from both the Union and Confederacy. Some of the more prominent Civil War graves include Brigadier General Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General William Ward, Brigadier General James Shackelford and Confederate officer Bennett Young who led the St. Albans Raid.

Are the Confederate soldiers in a separate section? I didn't see any Confederate gravestones in the pictures.

 

[NFB22]

Are the Confederate soldiers in a separate section? I didn't see any Confederate gravestones in the pictures.

There are just a few Confederate graves in the National Cemetery portion. There is a large cluster of Confederate graves in a separate portion of the cemetery. I plan to return and investigate that area more.

 

[donna]

It is a beautiful cemetery. When lived in Louisville went there a lot. We would feed the ducks. They also had swans and turkeys. My son loved the turkeys.

 

[NFB22]

Beautiful day, returned to Cave Hill to explore today.

Bennett Young, the leader of the St. Albans Raid.

The 32nd Indiana (replacement) Monument

Confederate Section

 

[huskerblitz]

A number of men from the 22nd Kentucky lay there today.

 

[donna]

Do you know if they ever moved General Castleman's statue to Cave Hill? It was one on Cherokee Rd. looking down at Cherokee Park. I have never heard any more about it.

 

[John Winn]

Do you know if they ever moved General Castleman's statue to Cave Hill? It was one on Cherokee Rd. looking down at Cherokee Park. I have never heard any more about it.

I really liked that statue. Somehow it just fit in nicely. My mother used to live very close by as did an old friend. I'd forgot that it got removed. Now I'll be wondering. I also wonder what happened to the one next to U. of L. I used to walk by that twice a day when I was a very young man.

 

[donna]

We use to live near the Castleman statue when I was in high school. Went by it many times a week. I really liked that statue. Had a friend in high school who was related to him.

 

[donna]

The one next to U.of L. was moved to Bradenburg, Ky.

 

[NFB22]

Do you know if they ever moved General Castleman's statue to Cave Hill? It was one on Cherokee Rd. looking down at Cherokee Park. I have never heard any more about it.

It's still in storage pending relocation to his gravesite the last I heard in the news.

I really liked that statue. Somehow it just fit in nicely. My mother used to live very close by as did an old friend. I'd forgot that it got removed. Now I'll be wondering. I also wonder what happened to the one next to U. of L. I used to walk by that twice a day when I was a very young man.

As @donna pointed out, it was moved to Brandenburg, KY to the west of Louisville where John Hunt Morgan's raiders crossed the Ohio River into Indiana.

 

[Sheltowee]

Great pics. Had no idea Bennett Young was there. Thanks