In May 1867, the Ladies Memorial Association of Manassas established the Confederate Cemetery on an acre of land donated by former Confederate Col. and Mrs. William Sanford Fewell for the reburial of Confederate soldiers who had died in camps, hospitals, or farmhouses during the autumn of 1861 and the winter of 1862 and whose remains were scattered over the Plains. The Groveton Association of Prince William County cared for remains gathered from the Manassas battlefield and interred in Groveton. In 1889, a monument was dedicated to soldiers from Virginia and other Confederate states who died on July 18 and 21, 1861, and August 28, 29, and 30, 1862, in defense of the Confederate cause. In 1911, the Ladies Memorial Association placed a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier at rest on the monument facing east. Today, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Manassas Chapter, owns the cemetery and maintains it in cooperation with the City of Manassas.