GeorgiaThis burial ground in Jonesboro, known today as the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Memorial Cemetery, holds the remains of some 600 to 1,000 unknown Confederate soldiers killed in the Battle of Jonesboro on August 31 and September 1, 1864, the engagement that severed Atlanta's last rail supply line and forced the city's fall. Men who had died in local field hospitals were first interred here, and after the war soldiers buried where they fell across the battlefields were gathered and reburied on the site, aided by an 1872 appropriation from the Georgia General Assembly. The cemetery is named for Confederate general Patrick Cleburne, whose troops fought in the battle, and its graves are famously laid out in the pattern of a Confederate battle flag.
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Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery in Clayton County, Georgia. It is one of 20 cemeteries documented in Clayton County, among 75 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.5307, -84.3532. The nearest cataloged historic site is Two Days of Battle at Jonesboro (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Patrick Cleburne Confederate Cemetery, Hardee’s Corps at Jonesboro, and Battle of Jonesboro The Second Day.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This burial ground in Jonesboro, known today as the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Memorial Cemetery, holds the remains of some 600 to 1,000 unknown Confederate soldiers killed in the Battle of Jonesboro on August 31 and September 1, 1864, the engagement that severed Atlanta's last rail supply line and forced the city's fall. Men who had died in local field hospitals were first interred here, and after the war soldiers buried where they fell across the battlefields were gathered and reburied on the site, aided by an 1872 appropriation from the Georgia General Assembly. The cemetery is named for Confederate general Patrick Cleburne, whose troops fought in the battle, and its graves are famously laid out in the pattern of a Confederate battle flag.
Sources: georgiahistory.comexploregeorgia.orgen.wikipedia.org
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