Monuments

Jeffersonville Cemetery Shaft (Jefferson, Virginia)


Confederate

The place where the Jefferson Cemetery Shaft stands today began as a temporary repository for the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers during the war. The site was formally given commemoration in 1892 by the Brown-Harman Camp of Confederate Veterans. Later at an unknown date, the site was given to the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and it is this organization that remains associated with the monument. It is unknown as to when the shaft monument was formally erected as well as the cost, artist, and creator. The site has no official boundaries as it remains unknown the total number of Confederate soldiers buried at the location. Today, the Jeffersonville community describes the site as the County's most sacred shrine and monument.


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Jefferson

Tazewell

Virginia

United States

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To the Memory of Our Confederate Dead 1861-1865 "Love Makes Memory Eternal

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bronze and fieldstone
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the Brown-Harman Camp of Confederate Veterans
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Jeffersonville Community
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy
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