Within this fenced burial ground lie Confederate soldiers who died at Laurel Hill, though their number is unknown. Inscribed headboards once marked the graves. During the Civil War, disease killed more men than bullets, and one soldier reported 14 graves in two separate cemeteries, while fewer than a dozen Confederates were killed in battle at Laurel Hill. Some Confederate graves were later removed. John B. Pendleton of the 23rd Virginia Infantry was killed in action and buried here, but after the war his brother moved his remains to a family cemetery in Louisa County, Virginia. Contemporary accounts recalled burials there, including Marion Harding of the 31st Virginia Infantry C.S.A., who wrote of a man buried about four o'clock with several guns fired over his grave, and John B. Pendleton, who wrote of Fendall Whitlock of his company dying and being buried on the side of a mountain. A Laurel Hill grave marker also recorded Charles H. Goff of Richmond, Virginia, Company H, 23d Regiment Virginia Volunteers, who was shot in action on July 7, 1861, at age 19.