Appomattox Court House * Tour the Village
The Confederate Cemetery at Appomattox National Historical Park is west of the village along Virginia Route 24. It holds the remains of 18 Confederate and one Union soldier who were killed on April 18 and 19 in the final fighting Appomattox Court House.
The Virginia Historical Marker MG1 Appomattox Court House Confederate Cemetery (see more) and a National Park sign mark the enhance to the parking area for the cemetery along Virginia Route 24.
Other markers near the Confederate Cemetery:
Appomattox monument
A Strategic Delay wayside marker
Wartime Landscape wayside marker
Two North Carolina markers
Right after the war in 1866 a Ladies Association was formed to provide internment for soldiers who had not had proper burials. Land for the cemetery was donated by Mr. John Sear, and men from the town of Appomattox constructed the coffins from donated wood and dug the graves. The Ladies Association eventually evolved into the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns and maintains the cemetery.
The Confederate Cemetery wayside marker (see more) just outside the cemetery fence tells some of the history of the cemetery and some of the men buried there.
The men whose identities are known are:
Captain Miles C. Macon of the 38th Battalion Virginia Artillery (Fayette Artillery)
Sergeant Oscar Demesme of Company D, Donaldsonville (Louisiana) Artillery
Private Alanson B. Hicks of Company D, 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Private Jesse H. Hutchins of Company A, 5th Alabama infantry Battalion
Private J.W. Douglas
Private John William Ashby of Company I, 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Private Francis M. Winn of Company E, 9th Georgia Infantry Regiment,
Private John A. Hogan, Company E, 26th Georgia Infantry Regiment
One of the unknowns was identified as belonging to a South Carolina regiment.
The sole Union soldier was found after the rest of the Federal dead had been removed from the battlefield in 1866 and 1867 and removed to Federal cemeteries near Petersburg.
The cemetery is the final resting place for 18 Confederate and one Union soldier. The identities are only know for seven of the men.
From the monument at the Confederate Cemetery:
Dedicated to the memory
of those who served in
the defense of the
Confederate States
of America
Location
The Confederate Cemetery is on the north side of Virginia Route 24 about 500 yards west of the entrance to the Village and about 1.5 miles east of the interchange of US 460 and Virginia Route 24. There is a small parking area north of Route 24.