BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Petersburg -- Blandford Cemetery

VA -- Petersburg -- Blandford Cemetery:

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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. BLAND_060305_002.JPG: Blandford Church In Harm's Way This church, built circa 1737, was in ruins at the time of the Civil War. Nonetheless, located behind Gracie's, Colquitt's and Elliott's Salients in the Confederate defense lines, the structure served as a temporary field hospital during the Petersburg siege. After the explosion of a Union mine at The Crater July 30, 1864, Confederate Gen. William Mahone rushed three brigades through here to blunt the Federal advance. Months later, in the early morning of March 25, 1865, Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon formed his assaulting columns in Blandford Cemetery to attack nearby Union Fort Stedman, opposite Colquitt's Salient. After the war, many of the Confederate dead from area battlefields and hospitals were reinterred here in a special section. Of the approximately 30,000 Southern soldiers buried here, only 2,025 are known; all are in mass graves. A small section south of the churchyard wall contains the remains of members of the famous New Orleans Washington Artillery who were killed during the siege. After the war, three Confederate generals were buried here: William Mahone, David Weisiger, and Cullen Battle. Between 1904 and 1912, Louis Comfort Tiffany installed fifteen windows in the church, eleven representing states in the former Confederacy, two for border states, and the last for the Ladies Memorial Association.
2. BLAND_060305_020.JPG: Major General Williams Phillips
3. BLAND_060305_043.JPG: The Bolling Mausoleum
4. BLAND_060305_068.JPG: Nora Fontaine Maury Davidson
5. BLAND_060305_073.JPG: Richard Yarbrough
6. BLAND_060305_074.JPG: A. McConnald
7. BLAND_060305_085.JPG: Sir William Skipwith
8. BLAND_060305_086.JPG: Bennett Aldridge
9. BLAND_060305_092.JPG: Joel Paulson
10. BLAND_060305_119.JPG: Old Square
11. BLAND_060305_137.JPG: Willie Quarles
12. BLAND_060305_147.JPG: Joseph Scott
13. BLAND_060305_157.JPG: Cockade City Monument
14. BLAND_060305_188.JPG: Nettie and Stella
15. BLAND_060305_196.JPG: Brigadier General David A. Weisinger
16. BLAND_060305_205.JPG: Lucy Lockett
17. BLAND_060305_239.JPG: The Arch
18. BLAND_060305_251.JPG: General William T. Mahone
19. BLAND_060305_258.JPG: Kate Dunlop
20. BLAND_060305_263.JPG: The Soldiers Memorial
21. BLAND_060305_280.JPG: Edward Hutson Titmus
22. BLAND_060305_296.JPG: The Roper Mausoleum
23. BLAND_060305_299.JPG: The Harrison Square
24. BLAND_060305_312.JPG: John and Salliee Maclin
Wikipedia Description: Blandford Cemetery
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Blandford Cemetery is located in Petersburg, Virginia, USA. The oldest stone, marking the grave of Richard Fairbrough, reads 1702. Veterans of six wars are buried there, including 30,000 Confederates killed in the Siege of Petersburg (1864-65) during the American Civil War.

In 1866, Blandford Cemetery was the site of the first Memorial Day ceremony in the United States. While visiting the cemetery, the wife of Union General John A. Logan was present and spied Miss Nora Fontaine Davidson, a schoolteacher, and her pupils putting flowers and tiny Confederate flags on the soldiers' graves. Shortly afterward General Logan issued a proclamation calling for the observance of Memorial Day.

Former Confederate General William Mahone, his wife Otelia, and many of their kinfolk are interred there.
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