Hi Wesley:

Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi contains a fairly substantial Confederate section. This site is just a block or two from the State government buildings and is the only Confederate burial plot that I have been able to locate in Jackson at all. Unfortunately, none of the graves is marked with a name. There are 193 marked "unknown" and 50 more graves not marked at all.

Gary Webster published "Confederate Rolls of Honor: Known Confederate Dead, Vicksburg Campaign, January 1862-July 1863" (Ole Sow Publications Vicksburg, 1998) and included the 8 names of Confederate soldiers that he believed are buried there with no marked headstone. Francis M. Thaxton, 49th Alabama Infantry is not on Gary's list. He might be interested in your research and may have other information he has collected since 1998. The mailing address I have for "Ole Sow" Publications is 100 Walnut Circle, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180. Try writing him there.

Surprisingly, nobody over at the Mississippi CWMB seems to know much more than this. The story of the collection of the Confederate dead after the war and their reburial here has to reside in the Mississippi UDC archives. I have no contacts with that organization. Maybe some of our Louisiana UDC ladies could lend a hand?

Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society