Alabama Cemetery

In 1862, Federal soldiers in the area found as many as 82 men buried here. The graves belonged to Confederate dead, including men of the Tenth Alabama volunteers, and the headboards indicated that they had died during August and September 1861. As of 2012, the cemetery's known burials included William P. Adams, Jesse Frank Nabors, James Barber, William Nunnelly, J.G. Booker, John T. O’Neal, Sidney Coleman, J.M. Patterson, J.W. Cravys (?), Hiram W. Pike, Cyrus Davis, William Pike, W.H. Dickerson, M. Pine, Robert G. Dunlap, James L. Plexico, Lewis Gardner, Malachi Ponder, Samuel Haines, Alford Posey, Benjamin King, F.D. Pritchett, William King, Professor Smith, J.F. Manters, James Sims, John F. Martin, James C. Sprinkle, Robert N Allen, Alonzo C. Tuck, Thomas B. Barr, James M. Vaughn, W.H. Dickerson, William M. Ward, Wily Hullums, D.F. Walkins, S.H. Houtz, John W. Weaver, Jesse Frank Leatherwood, D.F. Williams, and J.H. Manew. As many as 41 are still unknown. Stephen Durkee of the 7th Wisconsin Infantry wrote on April 12, 1862, that on the way to camp his group passed two groups of secessionist graves, one belonging to a Mississippi regiment and the other to the Tenth Alabama volunteers, where they counted 82 graves and saw that some names, companies, and times of death had been cut into stone, calling it a truly sad scene.

Linton Hall, Virginia · United States