Confederate Cemetery in Rome Georgia

by Mary Ann Artz

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Confederate Cemetery in Rome Georgia

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Mary Ann Artz

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Photograph - Photograph

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The Confederate Cemetery section within Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia, USA contains over 368 Confederate and Union soldiers, including 75 Unknown Confederates and two Unknown Union Soldiers, who lost their lives in the battles of the American Civil War from Rome and other places. Dr. Samuel H. Stout, the physician in charge of all the hospitals that served the Army of Tennessee, ordered that all permanently disabled patients be sent to Rome. Many are buried in this section. The buildings and churches that were used as hospitals for the fallen soldiers were spared from General William Sherman's November 1864 order of burning buildings on Broad Street. Most are still standing and are on the National Register of Historic Places. The section's graves were marked with painted wooden markers between 1863 and 1900. Sometime after 1900, their wooden markers were replaced with the present stone markers that still exist. The section is called the Confederate Section of the Cemetery, but is not limited to just soldiers from the Civil War. A few graves are those of soldiers from subsequent wars; and one woman, buried at the feet of her husband.

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November 2nd, 2019

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