Is this a Confederate memorial or a marker for the dead?

Jul 12, 2024 | by

The Richmond Free Press is reporting that “the Department of Public Utilities spent $16,000 to adorn a burial marker to Confederate soldiers at a utility substation located in the 2400 block of Wise Street.”

The Weisiger-Carroll House at 2408 Bainbridge Street was a Confederate military hospital serving troops from South Carolina during the Civil War. There is a mass burial of approximately 100 war dead in the cemetery that faces Wise Street and that backs up to the Weisiger-Carroll grounds.

The marker itself reads:

Here rest more than one hundred South Carolina solders who died in the Hospital in Manchester, VA. 1861-1865

Elliott Grays Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy

Erected October 6, 1939




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