Groveton Confederate Cemetery

Neither side had anticipated the war's cost in blood. After the fighting at Manassas, burial details dug shallow graves where soldiers had fallen, with little time for ceremony. Crude wooden headboards sometimes noted a soldier's name and regiment, but many went to their graves anonymously. The Bull Run and Groveton Ladies' Memorial Association, established in 1867, launched a campaign to recover Confederate dead from the battlefield, established this cemetery, and orchestrated the re-interment of an estimated 500 soldiers. Few could be identified, and only two graves have individual headstones. Many of the Union dead were reburied in Arlington National Cemetery.

Haymarket, Virginia · United States