Confederate Veterans Honored At Federal Cemeteries

There has been some debate over the last few months as to the "American Veteran" status of Confederate Veterans. The hate mongers often try to demonize our Southern-Patriot ancestors as traitors at best, and the equivalent of Nazis at worst.

In a recent post about the efforts of a Travis County, TX judge attempting to bring down the Austin (TX) Veterans Day parade over the allowance of Confederate flags, I clearly made the case that there should be no question that Confederate Veterans are nothing less than HONORABLE American Veterans based on United States government practices.

Along with providing military headstones for Confederate Veterans buried anywhere in the world, the United States government also maintains the graves of thousands of Confederate Veterans in this nation's National Cemeteries. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at just how many federally-maintained cemeteries do contain the final resting places of our heroic Confederate dead, and I was a bit overwhelmed!

The following list is in no way intended to be a complete listing, but I spent several hours the past few days doing quick online research regarding this matter. I found that OVER FIFTY of our national cemeteries, soldier's lots, & monument sites contain either graves or memorials to our Southern war dead, most of them in places under the control of THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, and some of them are specifically designated as Confederate Cemeteries!

These places include, but are not limited to, the following...

ALABAMA   
- Fort Mitchell National Cemetery    
- Mobile National Cemetery    

ARKANSAS
- Fort Smith National Cemetery
- Little Rock National Cemetery

FLORIDA
- Barrancas National Cemetery

GEORGIA
- Andersonville National Cemetery

ILLINOIS
- Camp Butler National Cemetery
- Mound City National Cemetery
- Confederate Mound (Oak Woods Cemetery)
- North Alton Confederate Cemetery
- Rock Island Confederate Cemetery

INDIANA
- New Albany National Cemetery
- Crown Hill Cemetery Confederate Plot
- Woodlawn Monument Site

IOWA
- Keokuk National Cemetery

KANSAS
- Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery
- Fort Scott National Cemetery

KENTUCKY
- Camp Nelson National Cemetery
- Cave Hill National Cemetery
- Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

LOUISIANA
- Baton Rouge National Cemetery

MARYLAND
- Annapolis National Cemetery
- Loudon Park National Cemetery
- Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery

MISSISSIPPI
- Corinth National Cemetery
- Natchez National Cemetery

MISSOURI
- Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
- Springfield National Cemetery
- Union Confederate Monument Site

NEW JERSEY
- Finn's Point National Cemetery

NEW MEXICO
- Santa Fe National Cemetery

NEW YORK
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery
- Woodlawn National Cemetery

OHIO
- Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
- Confederate Stockade Cemetery (Johnson's Island)

PENNSYLVANIA
- Philadelphia National Cemetery
- Allegheny Cemetery Soldiers' Lot
- Mount Moriah Cemetery Soldiers' Lot

SOUTH CAROLINA
- Beaufort National Cemetery

TENNESSEE
- Chattanooga National Cemetery
- Knoxville National Cemetery
- Memphis National Cemetery

TEXAS
- San Antonio National Cemetery

VIRGINIA
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Ball's Bluff National Cemetery
- City Point National Cemetery
- Fort Harrison National Cemetery
- Hampton National Cemetery
- Richmond National Cemetery

WEST VIRGINIA
- Grafton National Cemetery

WISCONSIN
- Fort Crawford Cemetery Soldiers' Lot

Some of these places contain hundreds of individually marked Confederate graves, some contain the remains of many Confederates in one mass grave, some may only contain one grave for a Confederate warrior, and at least one of these has a memorial in honor of President Jefferson Davis on site!

So the next time Billy Yank tries to tell you that Confederate Veterans are just a bunch of treasonous rebels and not worthy of honor as American Veterans, link them here so they can see where men who wore the gray rest in the same federally maintained ground as those who wore the blue.

DEO VINDICE!
- Jonathan McCleese
Sergeant-at-Arms, SCV Camp #1321