Confederate Cemetery

Nineteen men killed during the last two days of war in Virginia are buried here, out of perhaps 100 who died around Appomattox Court House. They were first buried where they died, at hospitals or in farm fields and woodlots in the area. In 1866, the Ladies Memorial Association of Appomattox recruited volunteers to collect the eighteen Confederate bodies for reburial, and a lone Union soldier was later found nearby and reburied here. The identities of only seven of the dead are known, and all of them had served in the Confederate army for at least three years. One of them, Alabamian Jesse H. Hutchins, enlisted just three days after the firing on Fort Sumter, survived 1,454 days of service, and was killed fighting Union cavalry a few yards from the courthouse on the evening of April 8, 1865, in the war’s last 24 hours.

Appomattox, Virginia · United States