The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The monument is a granite cuboid marker with bronze tablets on each side, listing the names of 184 Confederate prisoners that are buried at Philadelphia National Cemetery, but whose specific graves cannot be identified. It was opened at a ceremony on the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's death, with music, poetry, a thirty-gun salute, having about a thousand people in attendance. The monument is accompanied by a sign explaining the history of this monument.

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1911-09-01

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1906-07-01

1912-10-12

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The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument

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Tablet

UDC Philadelphia

The United Daughters of the Confederacy

Washington Crossing National Cemetery

Bronze,Granite - white

ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES TO MARK THE BURIAL PLACE OF 184 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. AS SHOWN BY THE RECORDS, WHO, WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR, DIED EITHER AT CHESTER, PA. AND WERE THERE BURIED OR AT PHILADELPHIA AND WERE BURIED IN GLENWOOD CEMETERY, AND WHOSE REMAINS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY RE- MOVED TO THIS CEMETERY, WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL GRAVES CANNOT NOW BE IDENTIFIED.

National Cemetery Administration

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Confederate

Philadelphia

West Oak Lane

Park