East Hill Cemetery Tablet (Fairmount, Virginia)

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Title

East Hill Cemetery Tablet (Fairmount, Virginia)

Description

The East Hill Cemetery Tablet sits in the hilltop cemetery straddling the state line between Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia. Commemorating the 300 Confederate dead estimated to be buried around the site, the Tablet overlooks the military hospitals in Bristol which were key medical centers during the war. The monument was erected and funded by the Ann Carter Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Judge J.C Bell of Mississippi in 1995, but no information was released regarding the artist, creator, and cost of the monument.

Contributor

Emily Amarelo

Type

Site

Identifier

2041

Date Issued

1995-01-01

Extent

m x m x m

Spatial Coverage

current,36.5944797,-82.1715086;

Europeana

Country

United States

Europeana Data Provider

East Hill Cemetery Tablet

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Wiki

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/East_Hill_Cemetery_Tablet

Material

bronze, stone

Inscription

Confederate Memorial / 1861/1865 / erected by Ann Carter Lee Chapter / United Daughters of the Confederacy and Judge Bell of Mississippi, 1995

State

Virginia

Affiliation

Confederate

City

Fairmount