Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • The Armies
Groveton Confederate Cemetery is Stop 8 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. The cemetery was established by local citizens in 1867 for the Confederate dead from the two battles at Manassas. Two hundred sixty-six men are buried here, grouped into the 13 states that made up the Confederacy. The monument was erected in 1904 by the Bull Run chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The cemetery became part of Manassas Battlefield Park in 1973.
A monument and a wayside marker are next to the cemetery parking area:
Groveton – Second Battle of Bull Run monument
Re-Burying the Dead wayside marker
Text from the front of the monument:
Confederate
Dead
We care not whence they came dear in their lifeless clay!
Whether unknown, or known, to fame
Their cause and country still the same. They died – and wore the Gray
But for them the
counting of time
is not: For they
dwell in the city
of God 
They gave their
lives in defense of
their country on
the fields of the
First and Second
battles of Manassas
They sleep well in
their unknown
graves on the far-
away battle field
Texas state marker, one of the 13 state groupings
Grave of James Palmer of South Carolina, one of only two fully identified soldiers in the cemetery.
Location of Stop Eight, Groveton Confederate Cemetery
The parking area for Stop Eight is on the north side of US 29 about 220 yards east of its intersection with Groveton Road, known as Featherbed Lane north of the highway. The Cemetery and its monument are about 110 yards east of the parking area. (38°48’50.5″N 77°32’45.5″W)