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Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)

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Country
  
United States

No. of graves
  
>17,000 (March 2015)

The Political Graveyard
  
Cedar Hill Cemetery

Owned by
  
City of Vicksburg

Find a Grave
  
Cedar Hill Cemetery

Phone
  
+1 601-634-4513

Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)

Location
  
326 Lovers Lane, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Address
  
326 Lovers Ln, Vicksburg, MS 39183, USA

Similar
  
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg National Military P, Vicksburg Battlefield Museum, Visit Vicksburg, Anshe Chesed Cemetery

Cedar Hill Cemetery, also known as the City of Vicksburg Cemetery, is one of the "...oldest and largest cemeteries in the United States that is still in use". Establishment of Cedar Hill Cemetery predates the American Civil War.

Contents

Soldiers' Rest burial site

After the American Civil War, a portion of Cedar Hill Cemetery was set aside for the burial of Confederate soldiers who died of sickness or wounds. This burial site was designated Soldiers' Rest and contains the graves of some 5,000 Confederate soldiers, with 1,600 identified.

Notable interments

  • John Stevens Bowen (1830 – 1863), Confederate major general during the American Civil War.
  • Walker Brooke (1813 – 1869), U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1852 to 1853).
  • Beverly Francis Carradine (1848 – 1931), noted author and Methodist minister.
  • Thomas C. Catchings (1847 – 1927), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1885 to 1901).
  • Nicholas Daniel Coleman (1800 – 1874), U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1829 to 1831).
  • James William Collier (1872 – 1933), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1909 to 1933).
  • Caroline Russell Compton (1907 − 1987), noted Mississippi artist.
  • Douglas the camel was a domesticated camel used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
  • Isham Warren Garrott (1816 – 1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War.
  • Martin Edward Green (1815 – 1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War.
  • Patrick Stevens Henry (1861 – 1933), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1901 to 1903).
  • Elza Jeffords (1826 – 1885), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1883 to 1885).
  • William Augustus Lake (1808 – 1861), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1855 to 1857).
  • Alexander Keith McClung (1811 – 1855), lieutenant colonel in 1st Mississippi Regiment during the Mexican–American War, and U.S. chargé d'affaires to Bolivia (1849 to 1851).

    • References

    Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi) Wikipedia
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