The remains of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Lewisburg, fought May 23, 1862, lie in a cross-shaped common grave with a vertical length of 80 feet, a cross arm of 40 feet, and an overall width of 10 feet. Colonel George Crook would not permit Southern sympathizers to bury their own dead, so the soldiers were originally laid out in the Old Stone Church and later placed without ceremony in a trench along the church's south wall. After the war, the remains of the 95 Confederate dead were removed from the churchyard and interred in this cross-shaped mass grave.