[Rarebooks] FA: 1869 Confederate Cemetery in Virginia

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"REGISTER OF THE CONFEDERATE DEAD INTERRED AT HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY,
RICHMOND, VA"  Printed in Richmond by Gary, Clemmitt & Jones in 1869.

A moving book, which lists a substantial portion of the 18,000 Confederate
soldiers and sailors interred at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond,
Virginia by the Hollywood Memorial Association, a group of Confederate
widows and veterans. It includes a 1-page history of the work of the
Association, the Association’s Constitution, a list of its officers, and
then 100 pages are an alphabetical list of the Confederate dead, showing
their Company, Regiment, State, their date of death, and the section they
are buried in.

The Hollywood Memorial Association was only a few years old when this book
was published, having been formed on May 3rd, 1866. The title page of the
book (to the left) illustrates the 90-foot tall “Granite Pile”, which was
still being built when this book went to press and is described as “clad
with vines and roses”, which it is not today.

THE CEMETERY: Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond Virginia, was founded in
1848, and was named for the groves of holly trees on the grounds. A
traditional Victorian garden cemetery, it is the final resting place of
many famous people including Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler. After
the Civil War a portion of the cemetery was set aside for Confederate
dead, and over 18,000 of them were eventually buried there, including
J.E.B. Stuart and Jefferson Davis (though neither was buried there at the
time our book was published).

The great granite monument to the Confederate dead, 90 feet tall, was
designed by Charles Dimmock. The $18,000 to build it was raised during a
special two-week fundraising bazaar staged in 1867...

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