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Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond City, Virginia
Lat: 37° 32' 11"N, Lon: 77° 27' 23"W
Hollywood is a privately owned cemetery and the final resting place
of over 18,000 Confederate soldiers from all Southern States. It
has the largest number of Confederate generals (23) interred anywhere
in the world. In addition to the slain from battles around Richmond
such as Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, and Cold Harbor,
the Confederate dead exhumed from Gettysburg in the 1870s, were
reinterred here on what became known as Gettysburg Hill.
The Hollywood Cemetery Registry of Confederate Dead, printed in
1869, contains about 10,500 names of the 18,000 soldiers that rest
here. The remaining names (unless they were unknown at the time
of burial) and locations were destroyed in a fire at the cemetery
office shortly after the war. Markers to the men whose burial location
is unknown, such as General Garnett of "Pickett’s Charge" fame,
exist in certain locations.
For the identification of sections and graves, granite blocks of
deeply cut letters have been erected at the corners and along the
sides of each section, and every grave has been marked by a locust
or heart cedar stake, of good size, bearing a tinned-copper number
plate. The sections have been leveled, and are well set in grass.
Carriage ways and footpaths have been graded, graveled and well
rolled; while granite gutters laid along their sides protect them
from washing. A large number of ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers
have been planted. The 31st of May, or as near that day as possible,
has been dedicated, since the organization of the Association, to
the distribution of floral offerings upon the graves of the Confederate
dead within the bounds of Hollywood cemetery.
This is not a complete listing of burials! The records below were
provided by contributors to Interment.net. Last edited Jan 08, 2008.
Total records = 6,771.
Contributor's Index:
Legend:
* = data from the Register of the Confederate Dead, Clemmitt &
Jones, 1869
M.S. = graves have Marble Slabs
nm = no marker
Records Index:
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