Stonewall Cemetery
A statue of a member of Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson's II Corps stands at the top of the Monument to the Unknown and Unrecorded Dead. The statue, made of Italian marble, is atop a base of Richmond granite. The 49-foot-high monument stands on a mound over the common grave of 829 Confederate soldiers. The monument was designed by sculptor Thomas Delahunty of Philadelphia. Dedicated in October 1866, Stonewall Cemetery holds the remains of the 2,494 Confederate soldiers brought together from battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley. (See account of 1879 dedication ceremony for the monument here: bit.ly/SxlMbJ)
Stonewall Cemetery
A statue of a member of Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson's II Corps stands at the top of the Monument to the Unknown and Unrecorded Dead. The statue, made of Italian marble, is atop a base of Richmond granite. The 49-foot-high monument stands on a mound over the common grave of 829 Confederate soldiers. The monument was designed by sculptor Thomas Delahunty of Philadelphia. Dedicated in October 1866, Stonewall Cemetery holds the remains of the 2,494 Confederate soldiers brought together from battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley. (See account of 1879 dedication ceremony for the monument here: bit.ly/SxlMbJ)