Washington Confederate Cemetery
| Washington Confederate Cemetery | |
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| Est. by State of Maryland | |
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| For Confederate soldiers | |
| Established | 1871 |
| Unveiled | 1877 |
| Location | near Hagerstown, Maryland |
| Total burials | 2,000 |
| Unknown burials | 1,664 |
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Total commemorated
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~2000 |
| Burials by nation | |
| Burials by war | |
Coordinates: 39°38′34″N 77°43′12″W / 39.64278°N 77.72000°W
The Washington Confederate Cemetery is a Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown, Maryland. Its burials include Confederate dead from such nearby battles as Antietam, Gettysburg, Monocacy and South Mountain. Less than 20 percent of its burials are identified. It was established in 1871 as a section of the Rose Hill Cemetery (Maryland).
In 1869, Governor Oden Bowie, of Maryland, requested that the state should take care of the Confederate dead from the battlefields of western Maryland. Wind, water, and animals had exposed the dead, hurriedly buried in shallow graves. Governor Bowie requested that Thomas Boullt of Hagerstown, Maryland, one of the Trustees for Maryland in the Antietam Cemetery, employ men to find and identify the Confederate dead buried in Washington and Frederick counties. Moses Poffinberger and Aaron Good of Sharpsburg identified ad hoc burial sites from throughout the western part of the state, primarily from the battlefields at Antietam, Monocacy and South Mountain, but also from skirmishes and from Robert E. Lee's retreat from Gettysburg.
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