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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HWOOD_030427_001.JPG: This is the grave of John Tyler. He was famous for the campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" when he ran as William Henry Harrison's vice president. Harrison died of pneumonia that he contracted while delivering his long inaugural address in the rain and Tyler became president. Harrison was the first president to die in office and Tyler established the transition precedent. In 1861, he participated in a peace conference that tried to avert the Civil War but came back saying that Virginia should secede. He died in 1862. In 1915, the federal government forgave him for his actions before the war, putting up this, the first monument erected by the US government to anyone who had joined the Confederacy.
2. HWOOD_030427_002.JPG: Behind John Tyler's grave, you can see the grave for James Monroe. It's that black thing.
3. HWOOD_030427_009.JPG: This is James Monroe's grave. The tent that's set up (and some subsequent military work that you'll see trying to set up other tents) was being arranged for the 250th anniversary of his birth on April 28, 1758. Monroe served as President until 1825 and, upon leaving office, was pretty well bankrupt. He died in New York City in 1831 and was buried there. Virginia in the mid-1850's decided they wanted him back and his body was returned to Richmond in 1858.
4. HWOOD_030427_024.JPG: I've always loved this one
5. HWOOD_030427_041.JPG: Another monument that I just adore
6. HWOOD_030427_045.JPG: This is the grave stone for Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis' wife
7. HWOOD_030427_047.JPG: Here's the grave site for Jefferson Davis
8. HWOOD_030427_051.JPG: This grave was for the daughter of the Davis'. After the war, she fell in love with a northerner but her father, ever the spiteful southerner, refused permission for her to marry. It's said that she died of a broken heart.
9. HWOOD_030427_085.JPG: Henry Heth is one of several Confederate generals buried at Hollywood Cemetery. His reputation was mediocre. He graduated last in his class at West Point in 1847. Jefferson Davis liked him and made him a brigadier general in January 1862. His actions in the battle of Chancellorsville (1862) got him promoted to command a division. In Gettysburg, it was Heth's men who made the initial contact with the Union armies on July 1 1863, something that Lee had specifically ordered him to not do. Without bothering to do any reconnaissance, he committed his troops and his division was severely bloodied. Later battles at Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, and around Petersburg gave him a reputation for personal bravery but maintained a reputation for acting brashly.
10. HWOOD_030427_101.JPG: This is a family grave site for the Lloyd family. I have no idea who they are but I love the fact that everything is set up like a tree.
11. HWOOD_030427_112.JPG: This stone marks Richard Garnett's presumed burial spot. During the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, he commanded the famous Stonewall Brigade. At the battle of Kernstown, he received confusing orders from Jackson and ordered his men to retreat. Jackson filed court martial charges against him but the trial was never held. He was then transferred to James Longstreet's corps and during the Pickett's Charge advance, he decided to prove his worth by leading his men on horseback against the stone wall, although he knew staying on his horse would be fatal. He regained his reputation but was killed in the assault. His body was never recovered. When Confederate dead were brought down to Richmond for burial after the war, it was presumed that his body was among the nameless corpses so this marker commemorates his actions.
12. HWOOD_030427_118.JPG: This is George Pickett's gravesite. He is buried among other commanders who fought at Gettysburg. Most famous for the ill-fated Pickett's Charge during that battle, Pickett never forgave Lee for ordering his men forward. During that charge, he commanded the brigades of James Kemper, Richard Garnett, and Lewis Armistead. At the battle of Five Forks, Pickett's famous "shad bake" put him out of communication during the opening of the battle and his men quickly fell back in retreat, dooming the cities of Petersburg and Richmond and directly leading to the surrender at Appomattox. Lee relieved him of command after the battle of Sayler's Creek.
13. HWOOD_030427_130.JPG: This 90-foot-tall pyramid was constructed in 1869 at the cost of $26,000. At this time, the south was destitute and raising this amount of money to "The Lost Cause" was a considerable achievement. No mortar was used to construct the pyramid. When it came to placing the capstone, the crane used wasn't tall enough so a volunteer was needed to climb the structure and manually guide it into place. A sailor serving time at a state penitentiary volunteered, placed the stone, and was granted his freedom.
14. HWOOD_030427_148.JPG: This cast iron dog guards the grave of a girl who died in the 19th century of a childhood disease.
Wikipedia Description: Hollywood Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in Richmond, Virginia. Characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River, it is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, as well as the only Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis. It is also the resting place of 25 Confederate generals, the most of any cemetery in the country. Included are George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart.

Hollywood Cemetery was opened in 1849, constructed on land known as "Harvie's Woods" that was once owned by William Byrd II. It was designed in the rural garden style, with its name, "Hollywood," coming from the holly trees dotting the hills of the property.

In 1869, a 90-foot-high granite pyramid was built as a memorial to the more than 18,000 enlisted men of the Confederate Army who are buried in the cemetery.

Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmond's major tourist attractions. There are many local legends surrounding certain tombs and grave sites in the cemetery, including one about a little girl and the black iron statue of a dog standing watch over her grave; a photo can be found here: . Other notable legends rely on ghosts haunting the many mausoleums. One of the most well-known of these is the Legend of a Richmond Vampire.

A place rich in history, legend, and gothic landscape, Hollywood Cemetery is also frequented by many of the local students attending Virginia Commonwealth University.

List of notable interments and their families:

* Alden Aaroe (1918-1993), broadcast journalist
* Joseph R. Anderson (1813–1892), American civil engineer, industrialist, soldier
* Frances Hayne Beall (ca. 1820-?), American wife of Lloyd J. Beall, daughter of South Carolina Senator Arthur P. Hayne
* Lloyd J. Beall (1808-1887), American military officer and paymaster of U.S. Army, Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps
* William Barret (1786-1871), American businessman, tobacco manufacturer considered wealthiest man in Richmond
* Benjamin Barrett, artist, poet, writer
* John M. Brockenbrough (1830–1892), Confederate Army colonel and brigade commander at Gettysburg
* James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), American fantasy fiction novelist
* Raleigh Edward Colston (1825-1896), Confederate Civil War general and VMI professor
* Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903), U.S. and Confederate Congressman, Civil War veteran, and President of Howard College in Alabama and Richmond College in Virginia. His statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.
* Peter V. Daniel (1784–1860), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
* Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the Confederate States of America
* Varina Howell Davis, (1826–1906), American author best-known as First Lady of the CSA, wife of Jefferson Davis
* Tazewell Ellett (1856-1914), U.S. Representative from Virginia
* Richard B. Garnett (1817–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general killed during Battle of Gettysburg
* Lewis Ginter (1824-1897), Dutch-American tobacco executive, philanthropist
* Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist
* John Harvie, (1742-1807), American lawyer and builder, delegate to the Continental Congress
* Henry Heth (1825–1899), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, participated at the Battle of Gettysburg
* Eppa Hunton (1822–1908), U.S. Representative and Senator, Confederate brigadier general
* John D. Imboden (1823–1895), lawyer, teacher, Virginia legislator, Confederate cavalry general and partisan fighter
* Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general
* Mary Johnston (1870–1936), American novelist and women's rights advocate
* Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), Confederate cavalry general, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, U.S. Army general in Spanish-American War
* John Marshall (1823-1862), editor of the Jackson Mississippian and Austin Star-Gazette. Appointed a Colonel in the Texas Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, he was killed in action at the Battle of Gaines Mill. (He is often confused with John Marshall (1755–1835), fourth Chief Justice of the United States, who is buried in nearby Shockoe Hill Cemetery.)
* Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), American oceanographer, scientist, and educator, who also served the Confederacy during the Civil War.
* William Mayo (ca. 1685-1744), Colonial civil engineer
* Hunter McGuire (1835-1900), Confederate Army surgeon who amputated General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's arm after Jackson was mistakenly shot by Confederate soldiers at Chancellorsville . (Despite McGuire's efforts, Jackson later died of pneumonia.) After the war, McGuire founded the Virginia College of Medicine, and was president of the American Medical Association.
* Polk Miller (1844-1913), American pharmacist and musician
* James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth President of the United States
* Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (1768-1830), U.S. First Lady, wife of James Monroe
* Emma Gilham Page (1855-1933), American wife of William Nelson Page
* William Nelson Page (1854–1932), American civil engineer, railway industrialist, co-founder of the Virginian Railway
* John Pegram (1832–1865), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army brigadier general
* William Ransom Johnson Pegram (1841-1865), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army colonel
* George Pickett (1825–1875), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army general, participated in Battle of Gettysburg
* John Garland Pollard (1871-1937), American politician, Governor of Virginia from 1930 to 1934
* William Wortham Poole (1842–1922), American bookkeeper. His burial tomb became associated with the Legend of a Richmond Vampire
* Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1907–1998), U.S. Supreme Court justice
* John Randolph (1773–1833), American politician, leader in Congress from Virginia
* William Francis Rhea (1858-1931), Virginia lawyer, judge, and U.S. Congressman
* William Alexander Smith (1828–1888), American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
* J.E.B. Stuart (1833–1864), American soldier, Confederate Army general
* David Gardiner Tyler (1846-1927), American Democratic politician, U.S. congressman
* John Tyler (1790–1862), tenth President of the United States,a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress.
* Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889), U.S. First Lady, wife of John Tyler
* Edward Valentine (1838-1930), American sculptor
* Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827–1890), Confederate Army general
* Henry A. Wise (1806–1876), Governor of Virginia, Confederate Army general
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