Confederate Rest

During the War Between the States, Breckinridge Military Hospital was established at what is now Marion Military Institute. Soldiers who died were first buried behind the MMI campus. After the war, the Ladies Memorial Assoc. had the remains exhumed and re-interred here in St. Wilfrid's Cemetery. A redwood tree was planted as a living memorial to the fallen soldiers. The grave of Judge Wm. M. Brooks, president of the Alabama Secession Convention of 1861, is nearby.

Marion, Alabama · United States