Confederate Rest Cemetery

[@Thecompactrepublic]

Thank you for respecting the dead, and drawing attention to this area.

[@terryeustice5399]

Thanks for documenting this Confederate Cemetery. Thanks Chris and Gary 💯👊

[@SouthernGentleman]

Rip 🪦 Most Confederates were under the age of 30 and they deserve respect like the Union fighting for their home

[@rickgriffin7131]

My home in Marion, Alabama, as well as several other homes and the Marion Military Institute took in wounded from Vicksburg. Those who passed are buried behind the Episcopal Church in Marion. Additionally, my home, the Lea House, was the site of the marriage of General Sam Houston to Margaret Lea in 1840. The original Stars and Bars which flew in Montgomery was made from the wedding dress of Sumter Lea who was adjutant of the Marion Rifles and designed by Nicola Marshall who taught at the Marion Female Seminary behind my home. He also designed the Confederate uniform.

[@cal4625]

Thanks for all the excellent work! I always enjoy the informative and professionally done videos you guys provide.

[@crimony3054]

While the Union made Robert E. Lee's home Arlington a cemetery for Union dead to dishonor him, it's amazing the Confederacy didn't develop its own cemetery for war dead or later for Confederate veterans in honor of Robert E. Lee.

[@gregruland1934]

He was such a great murderous racist who killed thousands of his fellow Americans - strange more places were not set aside to honor him

[@goobfilmcast4239]

The traitor Robert E. Lee threw any pretense of honor when he forswore his Oath to the US Constitution and spit on the US Army who allowed him a place at West Point to salvage what was left of the “reputation” of his family due to the actions of his scoundrel father. Lee owed the United States of America EVERYTHING but he made the immoral choice to turn traitor. His only “memorial” should have been the gibbet.

[@EIPepe305]

Didn't have the money for anything that big.

[@bowen1704]

Rip heroes

[@hi-et1oq]

Heroes😂😂😂😂 they are not special they are not great there are not Heroes they should built a Walmart top of that Cemetery😂😂😂😂

[@Quantrills.Raiders]

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[@timfrye3586]

Amazing! Good stuff, guys!

[@mjc8281]

Its funny you should talk about asking why something happened in history.... totally another war and off topic, but I live in a large building (a Hospital at the time) that was bombed during WW2 by the Luftwaffe and if you look at it on a map.. you can see specifically what the bomb aimers would have seen and why they would have bombed the hospital. That for me is the thing that is often lost and you guys do a great job of bringing the history to life is looking behind "the history" of it and making sense of the stories. Thank you!

[@arky5610]

need to visit the confederate cemetery in Fayetteville Arkansas

[@forwardobserver6441]

I love visiting down in point clear. Deo vindice

[@zpy-nq7wv]

❤ DEO VINDICE ❤ !

[@thomascarnes8700]

I had the pleasure of visiting Ft Blakley last May. Had a great-great grandfather Quill who fought there with the 69th Indiana. He was wounded by a mine near redoubt #3 I believe. He was cursively buried only to awake from the concussion and losing an eye. He lived into the early 1900’s and is buried in Muncie Indiana.

[@rivaridge7211]

Wow, a great story! Thanks for sharing!!

[@charlescollins9413]

There’s still some under the cart path. When i worked there, we’d dig some up when fixing irrigation.

[@STho205]

You're right about Vicksburg casualties and those suffering illness, but not the transit...that was a visitor's guess. Many of military patients were brought by Union hospital boats through Union held New Orleans and Slidell into Mobile Bay under flag of truce. The Union hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties, as were the POW camps on the barrier islands. To evac by railroad through Meridian Mississippi, the patients would have been attended in Mobile hospitals as there were no RRs into that part of Baldwin County till after the war, never a RR to Point Clear or Williamsburg (Fairhope), not even roads in the 19th cen, and all contact with Mobile was by bay boats to Point Clear-Battles warf and Hollywood landings. Some RR evacuees and recouperative patients may have made it there through Mobile as it was an area to evade yellow fever in the summer, but most of rhese men were by Union hospital transport.

[@tamiramos5873]

There is a section in a large Hagerstown, MD cemetery coming into the city from Antietam where a Confederate section is...but I never saw any headstones. I only looked quickly but is that possible?

[@Steph-hs5jd]

Wry interesting! Thanks for sharing

[@leeatterberry1239]

They wouldn't be there pushing daisies up if they just didn't pick up arms and tried to go after the real American soldier

[@D-sv8fw]

Most battles were fought on southern soil. These men were heroes defending their homes and families.

[@cognomenunknown2144]

Are there any graves here from the eastern theater?

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

The wounded in the Grand Hotel and the house, were hospitals with medical records of the Confederate Hospital and cemetery, the stories of the CSA, wounded, and how the city of Mobile was an important Rail Junction and center that did not fall to the Union until April 12th, 1865. YES, WE DO NEED TO ASK QUESTIONS! that helps us get answers after study and research!

[@hermangoetter8821]

Yes ,there definitely should be a full and COMPLETE investigation into exactly WHO was involved in this AMERICAN CIVIL WAR .

[@callumbush1]

I'm surprised they haven't plowed it over yet!

[@charlescollins9413]

It’s very protected by the state and the hotel.

[@hi-et1oq]

​@@charlescollins9413wasting our tax money protecting their garbage Cemetery. They should build a Walmart top of that Cemetery

[@bradmcewen]

"Confederate Dead says the gate banner says. My how point blank blunt.

[@goobfilmcast4239]

Needs to be renamed "Traitor's Trench"....not sporting but VERY accurate.

[@gregruland1934]

Ty yes 100%

[@airborneace]

A more fitting name for Lincoln's final burial plot

[@SouthernGentleman]

No confederate was convicted of treason and were Americans before and after the war. Get educated. North shot first at Harpers Ferry and sent a fleet to Charleston which caused Fort Sumter. “The southerners are our countrymen again.” - Ulysses Grant “We are to respect the Confederate dead for they represent American valor.” - U.S. President McKinley

[@bowen1704]

Not accurate at all. Secession wasn’t illegal back then

[@gregruland1934]

@@SouthernGentleman Traitors are traitors, convicted or not. The sophistry of traitors so eager to protect the terrorism of their ancestors is disgusting. Harpers Ferry was raided by abolitionists, not soldiers. The first shot - as all historians know - was at Fort Sumter - the Traitorous Rebellion started then. They tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans and keep their slaves - How proud you must be of your cultural heritage.