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Stonewall Confederate Cemetery - Winchester, Va
In Response To: Albert Dejean, 8th Louisiana ()

Stonewall Confederate Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia would be a good guess. Probably buried as an unknown.

See http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc9/stonewall_cem1.htm

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901582_pf.html

"The 5.5-acre plot, now contained within Mount Hebron Cemetery, represents the work of a women's group that did the seemingly impossible in the months after the war. Its members raised $14,000 to buy the land, moved 2,494 bodies from surrounding battlefields and private cemeteries, and dedicated the grounds on Oct. 25, 1866.

"Those men were not native sons sent home for burial but rather strangers who had died in the battles of Winchester, Kernstown, Cedar Creek and Cool Spring, defending the town and the surrounding area. They are buried according to their home states, in sections labeled Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. There were hundreds whose names were unknown, and they were buried in a mass grave at the center of Stonewall."

See http://www.acadiansingray.com/photo%20gallery-LA_mon_stonewall_cem.htm

A very nice Louisiana memorial!

Hugh Simmons

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