Civil War Cemetery (Jeffersonville, Indiana)

Civil War Cemetery (Jeffersonville, Indiana)

Carved stone with text on top and front

Jonah Boeckh

Site

2778

1927-01-01

m x m x m

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=46670, https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2167505/civil-war-cemetery

current,38.27054,-85.74363;

U.S.

Civil War Cemetery (Jeffersonville, Indiana)

TEXT

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Civil_War_Cemetery_(Jeffersonville,_Indiana)

Stone – carved

Private, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Affairs

Civil War Cemetery On this site, 1861 - 1865, are buried several hundred Union and Confederate Soldiers. Killed in the Western Campaign. Lack of interest from distant families allowed deterioration of the wood grave markers and heavy overgrowth. In 1927, the Jeffersonville Council determined “Better the sound of children’s footsteps at play than the silent stride of the nearly forgotten Great Spirit Army here at rest”. The only intact stone marker was moved to Walnut Ridge Cemetery. No bodies were exhumed. ( Front Section ) Presented by Frank R. Kossa Col (Ret) USAR on behalf of Lawrence Capehart Post 35 The American Legion Joseph M. Bittner Post 1832 Veterans of Foreign Wars

Indiana

Clark

Other

Jeffersonville

Park