MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 269.4 -- Confederate Gravesites and Old Trace:
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- NT2694_070130_03.JPG: Old Trace:
Much of the Old Trace had been abandoned by the start of the Civil War. However, the war did leave its mark on the Trace as it did upon the rest of the South, as soldiers marched, camped and fought along portions of this historic old road.
A 5-minute walk on the Old Trace here takes you to the gravesites of 13 unknown Confederate soldiers, a mute reminder of bygone days and of the great struggle out of which developed a stronger nation.
- NT2694_070130_05.JPG: Thirteen Unknown Confederates
Were they some of Shiloh's wounded who retreated here in 1862 to die beside the Natchez Trace? Did they serve under the daring General Nathan Forest who passed this way in 1864? Or were they guarding the Tupelo headquarters of J.B. Hood's Army of Tennessee near the end of the Civil War? We may never know.
Tradition holds that the unknown graves in front of you belong to Confederate soldiers who marched and camped along this stretch of the Old Trace. Perhaps they died of wounds, or the lingering hunger, poverty, and sickness in the army camps. Their simple grave markers face backwards -- toward the Trace -- so travelers might read and remember.
The original grave markers may have borne names, but they disappeared long ago. In 1940 Senator Theodore Bilbo arranged for marble headstones but they were stolen. The National Park Service erected the headstones now in place.
- NT2694_070130_14.JPG: Thirteen Confederate graves next to the Old Trace
- Description of Subject Matter: Short walk to graves of 13 unidentified Confederate soldiers.
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