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One hundred twenty-nine Confederate soldiers, forty-five of them unknown, are buried here after dying in Confederate hospitals in Americus. These men served in the Army of Tennessee. Some were with Gen. Jubal Early in the Washington, D.C. raid in July 1864. Others were sent from Andersonville, suffering and dying from the same diseases that afflicted Federal prisoners there. Mortality among the prison guards was as high as among the prisoners. Women of the vicinity aided in caring for these men, who gave their lives for the Confederacy.
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