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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS
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HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
(PAGE 1 OF 6)
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Hollywood Cemetery - 2000
Over 60,000 people, of all stripes, including 18,000 Confederate
soldiers, are buried in Hollywood Cemetery, located in Richmond,
Virginia. This includes, Presidents of the United States James
Monroe and John Tyler, Novelist Ellen Glasgow, Historians
Clifford Dowdy and David J. Mays, poets, ambassadors, and
congressmen. But the main interest, at least from this web site's
point of view, are the Confederate soldiers and leaders.
According to Dr. James E. DuPriest, Jr., in his book "Hollywood Cemetery", the
following Confederate Generals are buried in Hollywood Cemetery:
Joseph R. Anderson
James J. Archer
Robert H. Chilton
Philip St. George Cocke
Raleigh E. Colston
John R. Cooke
Henry Heth
Eppa Hunton
John D. Imboden
Edward Johnson
David R. Jones
Samuel Jones
Fitzhugh Lee
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Thomas M. Logan
John Pegram
George E. Pickett
John C.C. Sanders
William Smith
William E. Starke
Walter H. Stevens
Isaac M. St. John
James Ewell Brown Stuart
William R. Terry
R. Lindsay Walker
Henry A. Wise
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This section only begins to show the Civil War graves at Hollywood
Cemetery. Accordingly, more photographs will be added to this section
in the future.
On the Cemetery Road Map below, which also appears on each page in this
section, the red letters mark where the photographs were taken.
The letters on the map correspond to those by the photographs . (The map is
based roughly on the map in the book "Hollywood Cemetery" by James E. DuPriest,
Jr.).
The red letters mark the location of the photographs in this
section.
Entrance to the Cemetery From Albemarle Street. (A)
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Pyramid to the Confederate Soldiers. (B)
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The first memorial in Richmond, Virginia to the Confederate soldiers, this 90
foot granite pyramid was completed in 1869. Although it cost over twenty-five
thousand dollars to erect, the pyramid was constructed without mortar,
making the construction very dangerous. The crane was not tall enough to put the
capstone into place so volunteers were requested to climb the pyramid and
manually guide the capstone into place. Not surprisingly, no one responded.
Eventually, a sailor, who was serving time in the state penitentiary (located
fairly close to the cemetery), volunteered. For accomplishing the feat without
being killed, officials granted the sailor his freedom.
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Gettysburg Section (C)
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The Confederate Section of Hollywood Cemetery holds Confederate
casualties from most of the
Civil War battles, a majority of whom have "Unknown" markers. This photograph
shows part of the Gettysburg Section, which houses approximately 2,000
casualties from that battle. The monument on the foreground left is for CSA
General Richard Garnett (See Below)
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