Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery

Historic cemetery in Washington County, Arkansas

United States historic place


Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°03′41″N 94°09′10″W / 36.06139°N 94.15278°W / 36.06139; -94.15278
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1873
Built by	F. H. Venn Company
NRHP reference No.	93000481^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 3, 1993

Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery for soldiers of the Confederate States located on the eastern side of Fayetteville in Washington County, Arkansas. Added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1993, the cemetery encompasses 3.5 acres (1.4 ha).^[1]

History

Many American Civil War battles were fought in northwest Arkansas, including the Battle of Cane Hill, Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Prairie Grove, and many small skirmishes such as the action at Fayetteville. Initially scattered throughout Benton County and Washington County, efforts in 1878 by the Southern Memorial Association of Washington County succeeded in collecting the remains of fallen Confederate soldiers and burying them in the new Confederate cemetery. The Association paid for the remains to be moved and re-interred.^[2]

Design

The hundreds of graves are arranged into tree-shaded rows surrounded by an 1885 wall of native stone. The cemetery also offers a view from the hill down onto Fayetteville. A monument was constructed around 1898 at the center of the cemetery.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Confederate Cemetery". Things to Do. Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. Retrieved January 25, 2012.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery.

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Confederate Cemetery
Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery at Find a Grave

Arkansas in the American Civil War

Combatants

Campaigns

Battles

1862	Pea Ridge Whitney's Lane St. Charles Hill's Plantation McGuire's Store Cane Hill Prairie Grove Van Buren
1863	Arkansas Post Fayetteville Chalk Bluff Helena Brownsville Bayou Meto Devil’s Backbone Ashley's Mills Bayou Fourche Pine Bluff
1864	Mount Elba Terre Noire Creek Elkin’s Ferry Prairie D'Ane Poison Spring Marks’ Mills Jenkins’ Ferry Old River Lake Massard Prairie Fort Smith Ashley's Station
1865	Dardanelle Ivey's Ford

Aftermath

Reconstruction
Cemeteries
- Camp Nelson
- Camp White Sulphur Springs
- Fayetteville
- Helena

Category
Commons

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