Stonewall Confederate Cemetery
Historic veterans cemetery in Winchester, Virginia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the cemetery in Lexington, Virginia, see Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia).
Stonewall Confederate Cemetery is a subsection of Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, established in 1866 for 2,575 Confederate soldiers who died in battle or in the hospitals in and around the Winchester area. A monument over the mass grave of more than 800 unknown Confederate soldiers is at the center of the cemetery, and there is a section for each state member of the Confederacy. The plots are thus organized according to the home states of the fallen soldiers within.[1] There are state monuments in most of the sections.
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Established | 1866 |
Location | 305 E. Boscawen St., Winchester, Virginia |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 39°11′00″N 78°09′23″W |
Owned by | Mount Hebron Cemetery |
No. of graves | 2,575 |
Website | Stonewall Confederate Cemetery |
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