Hello Linda,

From “Vestiges of an Earlier Ashland” by Roseanne Shalf @
http://www.geocities.com/hanovercounty/ashland.html

“Many of the homes and churches and resort buildings were used as hospitals for wounded soldiers during the Civil War and Ashland people cared for the dying and wounded. The soldiers who died were buried in Woodland Cemetery. Today, an Obelisk marks where 400 soldiers were buried. We know the names of about 250 from a burial book located in the Virginia State Archives. The book lists the name of each soldier, the number of the grave in which he is buried, the state he was from, and the makeshift hospital where he died.”

Check your library for the book “Confederate Cemeteries, Volume 2” by Mark Hughes. It covers Woodland Cemetery in Ashland. ISBN: 0788423452

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."