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Stonewall Confederate Cemetery

Stonewall Confederate Cemetery
Memorial to Confederate unknowns
Details
Established	1866
Location	305 E. Boscawen St., Winchester, Virginia
Country	United States
Coordinates	39°11′00″N 78°09′23″W / 39.1832881°N 78.1564743°W / 39.1832881; -78.1564743
Owned by	Mount Hebron Cemetery
No. of graves	2,575
Website	Stonewall Confederate Cemetery
Find a Grave	Stonewall Confederate Cemetery

Stonewall Confederate Cemetery is a subsection of Mount Hebron CemeteryinWinchester, Virginia, established in 1866 for 2,575 Confederate soldiers who died in battle or in the hospitals in and around the Winchester area. A monument over the mass grave of more than 800 unknown Confederate soldiers is at the center of the cemetery, and there is a section for each state member of the Confederacy. The plots are thus organized according to the home states of the fallen soldiers within.^[1] There are state monuments in most of the sections.

Notable burials[edit]

• The Brothers Ashby:
  • Brigadier General Turner Ashby (1828–1862), "Black Knight of the Confederacy", cavalry commander during Jackson's Valley Campaign, killed at Good's Farm
  • Captain Richard Ashby (1831–1861), killed by Union patrol near Hampshire County
• The Patton Brothers:
  • Colonel George Smith Patton (1833–1864), brigade commander during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, killed at Opequon; grandfather of General George S. Patton, army commander during World War II
  • Colonel Waller Tazewell Patton (1835–1863), commander of the 7th Virginia Infantry, mortally wounded during Pickett's ChargeatGettysburg
• Brigadier General Archibald Campbell Godwin (1831–1864), brigade commander during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, killed at Opequon
• Brigadier General Robert Daniel Johnston (1837–1919), brigade commander during the Overland Campaign and in the Valley Campaigns of 1864; father of Colonel Gordon Johnston, Medal of Honor recipient during Philippine–American War
• Major General John George Walker (1821–1893), Mexican–American War veteran, brigade commander during the Peninsula Campaign, commander of Walker's Greyhounds in the Western Theater

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External links[edit]

• Media related to Stonewall Confederate Cemetery (Winchester, Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons
• Stonewall Confederate CemeteryatFind a Grave
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stonewall Confederate Cemetery