Battle of Spotsylvania • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Confederate Cemetery is in the Spotsylvania Court House historic district on the southeast side of Courthouse Road. It was established in 1866 by the Spotsylvania Memorial Association, a group of local women concerned about the large number of Confederate dead who remained scattered on the battlefields of Spotsylvania county, poorly interred and poorly marked.
View from the entry drive. The Confederate Soldiers monument stands guard in the center of the cemetery.
Confederate Soldiers Monument
The Confederate Soldiers monument is in the center of the Confederate Cemetery in the Spotsylvania Court House historic district. (see map below). The monument was dedicated on May 30, 1918 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Text from the front of the monument:
Confederate Soldiers
Erected and dedicated
May 12, 1918,
by the Spotsylvania Chapter
United Daughters of
the Confederacy,
Confederated Southern
Memorial Association and
citizens of Spotsylvania County,
to commemorate and
perpetuate the valor and
patriotism of the sons
of Spotsylvania County,
Virginia, and other
Confederate soldiers who
repose in this cemetery.
Text from the left side of the monument:
Lest we forget.
Text from the rear of the monument:
“We have gathered the sacred dust,
of warriors tried and true,
who bore the flag of
our nation’s trust,
and fell in the cause
‘tho lost, still just,
and died for me and you.”
Text from the right side of the monument:
Love makes Memory eternal.
The Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery historical marker
Text from the cemetery marker:
The Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery
Thousands of brave Americans were killed on the Civil War battlefields of Spotsylvania County. Seven Hundred and fifty soldiers from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North ans South Carolina, Texas and Virginia were moved from the battle grounds and interred here. Many are unknown.
A roster is available.
Land was acquired near the court house and bodies were reinterred as they were found. The bodies now lay under headstones provided by the U.S. Government, grouped by state when known. The cemetery is the last resting place for over 700 Confederate soldiers. A roster is available of the 570 names that are known.
Location of the Cemetery
The Confederate Cemetery is in the Spotsylvania Court House historic district on the southeast side of Courthouse Road. The entrance to the cemetery is 0.35 mile southwest of the intersection with the bypass and 0.3 mile northeast of the intersection of Courthouse Road with Brock Road. (38.202639° N, 77.583138° W)