RONDO CEMETERY
Our thanks to ED PERSER of Hot Springs, AR for supplying this information.
At the eastern edge of Texarkana, AR is the town of Rondo.
During the war between the states Rondo was the gateway through which Texas Soldiers passed to reach the active sectors of the Confederate Army. Areas adjacent to town became their camps; and here they rested for a day or so, received last minute drill for combat, and were issued equipment. According to the best information available, a contingent of the Warehouse Regiment was encamped near Rondo, Measles swept the camp causing the death of many soldiers. These men were buried at various places near their camping ground, but, after the war, citizens of Rondo moved the remains of eighty-five unknown soldiers. They were buried side by side in the Rondo Cemetery.
One hundred-thirty-four years later the Van Zandt County, Texas Historical Commission unveiled a historical marker at the cemetery and named twenty-one of the previously unknown soldiers. All of them were members of the 19th Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment and were all from thirteen counties in Eastern Texas and were enroute to Camp Nelson at Austin, AR to intercept union forces. Records show that in 1862 the black measles killed most of the soldiers buried five to the grave in seventeen graves at Rondo. The cause may have , in realty, been caused by paratyphoid fever, which comes from drinking contaminated water.
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