Generals at Rest

[mt155]

Whenever I take a trip I always make a point to visit the local cemeteries and look for "famous" folks that might be buried there. CW generals are photographed and checked off my list. I am working my way, slowly, through making a photographic catalog of burial sites. Over the next few days I will post some of the ones I have so far.

Albert Sidney Johnston
Texas State Cemetery Austin, TX

John A. Wharton
Texas State Cemetery Austin, TX

P. G. T. Beauregard
Metairie Cemetery New Orleans, LA

 

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[mt155]

William Thompson Martin
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Thomas Pleasant Dockery
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Zebulon York
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Charles Dahlgren
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

 

[Eleanor Rose]

CW generals are photographed and checked off my list. I am working my way, slowly, through making a photographic catalog of burial sites.

This is a great idea and your pictures are awesome! I just visited Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond a few months ago. I found several gravesites that were on my list including George Pickett's, Jeb Stuart's, Jefferson Davis' and the Longstreet children. I thought it was neat that Stephen Lang had donated a bench that was placed next to Pickett's grave. It was also interesting seeing the inscriptions on LaSalle's, Flora's, Varina's and Winnie's.

 

[Vicksburger]

William Thompson Martin
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Thomas Pleasant Dockery
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Zebulon York
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Charles Dahlgren
Natchez City Cemetery Natchez, MS

Great photos as usual, mt155, they remind me of one of Troiani's or Kunstler's paintings, rather than photographs.

 

[reading48]

Nice pictures...When we go on road trips down South, we will stop at some cemeteries. to see if there are soldiers buried there. We stumbled across one in Lewisburg W.V. Where 95 unknown Confederate soldiers were buried and it was well maintained...

 

[donna]

Wonderful photos.

 

[FarawayFriend]

I thought it was neat that Stephen Lang had donated a bench that was placed next to Pickett's grave. It.

I wished I had known that before!

 

[Patrick H]

This is a nice thread. I like to wander in cemeteries and photograph Civil War veteran graves, too--but I haven't encountered a general yet.

 

[JohnW.]

Great pics!!!

 

[mt155]

Hugh Mercer
Bonaventure Cemetery Savannah, GA

Alexander Robert Lawton
Bonaventure Cemetery Savannah, GA

Robert H. Anderson
Bonaventure Cemetery Savannah, GA

 

[bdtex]

Those are great pictures. Taken in the fall?

 

[bdtex]

Whenever I take a trip I always make a point to visit the local cemeteries and look for "famous" folks that might be buried there. CW generals are photographed and checked off my list. I am working my way, slowly, through making a photographic catalog of burial sites. Over the next few days I will post some of the ones I have so far.

Albert Sidney Johnston
Texas State Cemetery Austin, TX

John A. Wharton
Texas State Cemetery Austin, TX

P. G. T. Beauregard
Metairie Cemetery New Orleans, LA

I'm guessing you have one of the General buried in Jefferson,Texas with our famously difficult to photograph pink granite gravestone.

 

[mt155]

I'm guessing you have one of the General buried in Jefferson,Texas with our famously difficult to photograph pink granite gravestone.

I sure do!!

 

[bdtex]

I sure do!!

Gonna post it? I think there is one buried in Marshall too.

 

[bdtex]

I had a great opportunity to do that in Pittsburgh last year. Went to the wrong freaking place and didn't even know it until I got back.