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Preferred Citation

Rosters of Confederate Burials at Charlottesville and University of Virginia Cemeteries, Accession # 1235; 1675; 1777; 1777-a; 5863, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The collections were received by the Library at various times as either gifts or transfers from other University divisions.

Scope and Content Information

These five collections, 1940-1943, 1958 and 1964, all contain burial rosters of Confederate soldiers buried in the Soldiers' [sometimes known as the University or Confederate] Cemetery adjacent to the University of Virginia Cemetery as well as those in Charlottesville, Virginia cemeteries. Researchers are cautioned that there is not only duplication of documents and information within these collections but other items not relating to burials may accompany them. Nevertheless, this guide will describe only the various burial rosters and should not be considered as a complete description of the collections.

Accession number 1235 constitutes the most accessible arrangement of these records and consists of a bound volume, "Key to the Map of the Soldier's Cemetery. University of Virginia. With an alphabetical index by States" on pages 1 to 187. The map itself has not survived and few of the 1,097 men buried in this cemetery actually have any sort of visible markers for their graves.

Pages 1 to 157 are headed by columns: "Number" (order of internment?); "Name"; "Command" (regiment and company); "N[umber] of feet from the U[niversity] C[emetery] wall to center of grave"; and, N[umber] of feet from wall next to the road to grave." There follows an "Index by State" (alphabetically, with regiments and companies pencilled in), pages 159-185; "Unknowns," page 186, and, "Recapitulation," page 187. A 61- page typescript of the volume (but lacking regimental designations in the "Index by State" section) is also present; it is duplicated wholly or partially by materials in accession numbers 1675, 1777-a, and 5863.

Also present with accession number 1235 is a newspaper section, "Confederate Graves In Charlottesville Cemeteries," published in the Charlottesville Daily Progress on January 29, 1947. This was apparently a listing of Confederate veterans who died after the war (with a few exceptions) and were buried at either the Jewish, Maplewood, Memorial Park, Oakview, Riverview, or University cemeteries. Additions and corrections for this listing may be found in accession number 1675; an eight page typescript, "Confederate Crosses In Maplewood Cemetery--1940 Charlottesville Virginia," with a plan of the cemetery, is with accession number 1777.

For further information on Confederate cemeteries and burials in Charlottesville and at the University consult Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.'s Charlottesville and the University of Virginia in the Civil War (1988); for details about Confederate grave markers ("Crosses") see Jay S. Hoar's The South's Last Boys in Gray (1986).