Generals at Rest

[Buckeye Bill]

* U.S. Army Major General and U.S. Navy Commander William "Bull" Nelson at the Maysville Cemetery in Maysville, Kentucky.

 

[Buckeye Bill]

* Confederate Brigadier General Basil Wilson Duke at the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky.

 

[James N.]

One I'd missed on a previous visit because it's HIGH up on the hillside at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, New York (yes, THAT Sleepy Hollow!): Maj. Gen. and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz.

 

[mt155]

James Negley

Alexander Hays

Both in Allegheny Cemetery
Pittsburgh, PA

 

[James N.]

We've already seen one from Oakwood Cemetery in Jefferson, Texas but here's another: Brig. Gen. Richard Waterhouse, C.S.A.

 

[James N.]

Lt. Gen. Richard Heron Anderson, C.S.A. in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1989.

 

[James N.]

Three more from what until very recently was called the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery in Lexington, Virginia - we've already had Stonewall himself, but above is the original site of his grave and the original headstone, second from right.

Nearby at left, Brig. Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, C.S.A., Lee's Chief Of Artillery, A.N.V.; the stone in the form of a cross is his son and one of Jackson's principal staff members, Lt. Col. Alexander "Sandie" Pendleton, killed at Fisher's Hill in Sept., 1864.

Left, Brig. Gen. Elisha F. "Bull" Paxton, killed at Chancellorsville leading the Stonewall Brigade.

 

[James N.]

Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia includes the graves of The Brothers Ashby, one Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby, who was killed in June, 1862 at Harrisonburg while commanding Stonewall Jackson's cavalry during his Shenandoah Valley Campaign.

 

[bayouace]

Gen. Franklin Gardner, defender of Port Hudson. Nearby is his brother-in-law Gen. Alfred Mouton. Both in St. John Cathedral Cemetery Lafayette, LA.

 

[Tony Z]

Here in north central "Pennsyltucky", even our fancier cemeteries are very simple!

 

[bayouace]

Here in north central "Pennsyltucky", even our fancier cemeteries are very simple!

In Louisiana above ground vaults are often a result of a cemetery site that saturates with our rainfall. Over 70 inches so far in 2021 for Baton Rouge. A record, I believe.

 

[Cavalier]

@mt155 Thank you for Alexander Hays. I always wanted to visit his grave but may not get the chance.

John

 

[Cavalier]

I found Israel B. Richardson on the Find A Grave. Had a cool inscription. "He drew his sword for his country, 1841.
He sheathed it without dishonor at Antietam, 1862"

A rather unheralded hero, in my opinion anyway.

They knew how to turn a phrase, or an epitath, in those days.

John

 

[mt155]

CSA General Felix Zollicoffer gravesite in the Old City Cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee.

CSA General Richard Ewell gravesite in the Old City Cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee

 

[mt155]

CSA General Felix Zollicoffer gravesite in the Old City Cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

[James N.]

I don't believe anyone's as yet posted the Lancaster, Pennsylvania graves of Maj. Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, killed July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg, and his brother at right who was an officer in the U.S. Navy.

 

[Virginia Dave]

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...

I hope you took photos. Please post if you did. Thanks

 

[James N.]

Brig. Gen. William Yarnell Slack, C.S.A., mortally wounded at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March, 1862, in the Fayetteville, AR Confederate Cemetery.

 

[reading48]

I would if I could, but they are mixed in with my computer which I have 20,000 plus photos. We have gotten a new computer since then and the set up guy loaded them up in the cloud and the label and dates didn't carry over.

I hope you took photos. Please post if you did. Thanks

 

[James N.]

Virginia cavalryman Brig. Gen. William H. F. Payne and his wife Mary, in the Warrenton Cemetery.