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1. MTOLIV_070131_003.JPG: Confederate Circle at Mount Olivet: After the War Between the States, the women of Nashville bought land at Mount Olivet, and formed Confederate Circle. The remains of about 1,500 Confederate soldiers were moved here from area battlefields. Seven Confederate generals were buried in or around the circle. They are William B. Bate, William N.R. Bealle, Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, William H. Jackson, George E. Maney, James E. Reins, and Thomas Benton Smith. Other prominent Nashville Confederates, Colonels Adolphus Helman and Randal McGavock, lie nearby. A 45-foot granite monument marks the center of the circle.
2. MTOLIV_070131_006.JPG: George Earl Maney (1826-1901): ... Maney was elected colonel of the 1st Tennessee Regiment [which was the group in which famed diarist Sam Watkins served] ... in May 1861. ... General B.F. Cheatham allowed Maney to select regiments for an attack on the "Hornet's nest" at Shiloh. Maney led his own 1st Tennessee, and the 9th and 19th. One reason Maney's attack succeeded when others failed is he had his men lie down before U.S. troops fired a volley, which then went over them. Cheatham described his attack as brilliant and decisive, and it earned Maney's promotion to brigadier general. Later in 1862, Cheatham called on Maney to take another tough position at Perryville, Kentucky. They flanked the U.S. line, capturing 7 cannon and killing at least two U.S. generals. Cheatham said Maney's attack was "the most exciting few moments of my life." .... Post-bellum, Maney was president of the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad. He also held diplomatic posts in Columbia, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
3. MTOLIV_070131_062.JPG: John J. Carter Born Dec. 6, 1849 Perished in the Baldwin Hotel Fire San Francisco Cal. Nov. 20, 1898. True in purpose, cool in judgment, of unflinching courage and stainless integrity, he never compromised principle, nor sacrificed honor. He was distinguished for knightly bearing and abounding charity, which was free from calculations and without ostentation. Carter. This monument built by friends and admirers of the American turf.
4. MTOLIV_070131_073.JPG: John Overton, friend of Andrew Jackson and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee
5. MTOLIV_070131_079.JPG: Randal William McGavock, Confederate colonel killed in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi.
6. MTOLIV_070131_083.JPG: Robert McGavock
7. MTOLIV_070131_129.JPG: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886): Cheatham's mother's grandfather was James Robertson, the founder of Nashville. ... Cheatham did not receive a military education but he did serve in the Mexican War. As a captain in the 1st Tennessee Regiment, Cheatham was in the assault at Monterrey. He was in the first amphibious assault in American military history at Vera Cruz. Before the war ended, he was promoted to colonel and returned to raise a new regiment. Cheatham was friends with Gov. Isham Harris, who played the lead role in Tennessee's succession from the U.S. Harrison appointed him brigadier general in the state army, and when transferred to the Confederate army, he held that rank. His role in the 1861 victory at Belmont, Missouri earned him thanks in a resolution from the C.S. Congress. President Jefferson Davis knew him from the Mexican War, and approved his promotion to major general in March 1862. Cheatham's Division established a reputation for bold fighting. At Shiloh (April 1862), Cheatham had three horses shot from under him. At Perryville (Oct 1862), his division shattered a U.S. army corps as he drove back the U.S. left, compressing three lines into one. At Murfreesboro (Dec 1862), his division played the key role in driving U.S. out of the Slaughter Pen. At Chickamauga (Sept 1863), his division made a rare night attack. At Missionary Ridge (Nov 1863), when the center f the army's line broke, Cheatham aligned his division to successfully hold the right. After the Atlanta Campaign, his combat record earned him promotion to corps command. He led his corps into Tennessee where it was wrecked at Franklin (Nov 1864), as General Hood ordered assaults against a well-entrenched U.S. Army. The corps fought well at Nashville (Dec 1864), until nearly surrounded at Shy's Hill. Cheatham remained with the Army of Tennessee until the surrender in April 1865. After the war, he returned to Nashville to serve as superintendent of prisons as well as postmaster. His funeral may have drawn 30,000, making it the largest in Nashville history. The procession from First Presbyterian Church out to Mount Olivet was a mile long.
8. MTOLIV_070131_136.JPG: William Nelson Rector Beall (1825-1883): ... Beall was not known to have lived in Nashville, so why is he buried here? It was likely because his wife Felicia Bass was from here. She would have seen him buried as she lived until 1921. Arkansas held a state convention in March 1861 and was against secession from the U.S. In April, U.S. President Lincoln called for troops to invade the CSA. Opinions changed and when the convention reassembled in May, the vote was 69 to 1 for secession. Like Arkansas, Beall had been reluctant and was one of the last Southerners to resign [from the U.S. Army]. Beall entered Confederate service at his U.S. rank of captain but was promoted to brigadier general on April 11, 1862. In August, he was placed in command of Port Hudson, Louisiana on a strategic bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River. He immediately began designing a line of fortifications. In 1863, it became apparent U.S. would make a significant effort to take Port Hudson and Vicksburg. In may, the U.S. Army had about 30,000 troops in position to lay siege to the Confederate line, held by only about 7,000. On May 27, the U.S. made a general assault all along the line. Beall played a key role in their repulse. U.S. casualties were close to 2,000 with up to 450 killed; total C.S. casualties were no more than 274. On June 13, the U.S. opened a huge artillery bombardment. Shell fell at the rate of more than one a second. The Confederates were advised they might be massacred if another assault was made. Beall and the defenders further enhanced their reputations by repulsing another assault, the U.S. troops suffering another 1,805 casualties. Due to starvation and the July 4 surrender of Vicksburg, Port Hudson surrendered on July 9. The defenders had endured 46 days of siege, the longest in American military history. After the surrender, Beall was sent to prison. Confederate prisoners were freezing to death in the colder climates of the U.S. For the Confederates to get permission to send blankets and clothes to the prisoners, the U.S. government demanded badly needed Confederate cotton. Beall was released on parole to serve as a Confederate agent for this trade. He had an office in New York City.
9. MTOLIV_070131_145.JPG: Aaron V. Brown
10. MTOLIV_070131_195.JPG: I liked the way they crossed out the second person's name
11. MTOLIV_070131_224.JPG: Samuel Watkins
12. MTOLIV_070131_245.JPG: James Edwards Rains (1833-1862): Rains was primarily at Cumberland Gap early in the war and was promoted to brigadier. In December, 1862, the Army of Tennessee was in position north of Murfreesboro with hopes of liberating occupied Nashville. The U.S. advanced with plans to attack on the morning of December 31st. At twilight (about 6:22am), U.S. troops were cooking their breakfast. Through the fog, pickets could see a C.S. division coming toward them. Rains' Brigade was on the far left end of that division. As Rains hit the end of the U.S. line and slipped around their rear, two other brigades hit head on. Though outnumbered, the surging line of angry Confederates routed the U.S. division. One brigade was taken out in only five minutes and their general killed. Another brigade quickly fell back with its general captured. In less than an hour, the U.S. division had over 1,000 men captured and lost eight cannon. When the battle ended, the U.S. Army had suffered their highest casualty rate of any battle in the war. Yet before it ended they had fallen back on a line of artillery. As Rains led his brigade forward, he yelled his last words, "Forward my brave boys, forward!" Suddenly a bullet to the heart killed Nashville's General Rains.
13. MTOLIV_070131_267.JPG: Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle (1838-1931): Mary Kate's brother Everett served with Coleman's Scouts. The most famous member was Sam Davis, whose statue is on Capitol Hill, and whose home is a shrine in Smyrna. He was hung as a spy, though captured in his uniform. The Patterson home was a secret rendezvous for the scouts. A closed or open shutter could signal all clear, and lamps could be placed in designated windows to relay other information. Messages were left in stumps and hollow trees referred to as post offices. An approaching scout might give the haunting call of the Bob White to announce his presence. The Confederate forces had difficulty procuring medicines. Dr. Patterson had contacts in Nashville that provided crucial quinine and morphine. They had a false bottom built into a buggy so that Mary Kate could bring them out. If room was left, the also conveyed such items as boots, bridles, and spurs. Sam Davis wore a pair of boots Mary Kate had made for him, and was wearing them when hung by the U.S. Army. Davis refused to reveal the source of papers he was carrying with information on U.S. troops. It may be that he was protecting Mary Kate. One night in mid-November 1863, Mary Kate heard a pebble tossed at a window. It was Sam Davis's special signal. It was too dangerous to stay in the Patterson home, so he camped in a nearby thicket. The next morning, Mary Kate brought him coffee and a warm breakfast. She also brought him soup, a toothbrush, and U.S. newspapers. She may have brought him troop movement information and a diagram of U.S. forts around Nashville. All of these items were on him when he was captured later in the month. Before he was executed, he could have saved his life. Davis declined, saying "If I had a thousand lives, I would lose them all here before I would betray my friends or the confidence of my informer." The following February, Mary Kate married Sam Davis's half-brother John Davis. After the war, John was a partner with Dr. Patterson as owners of a steamboat. In February 1867, just three years after they were married, John was killed when the boat exploded on the Mississippi River. Mary Kate married two other times, before dying as a widow in 1931.
14. MTOLIV_070131_269.JPG: Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle
15. MTOLIV_070131_276.JPG: Mary Elizabeth Bradford Johns (1836-1913): ... In December 1864, the Army of Tennessee, then under General John Bell Hood, returned in another attempt to retake Nashville. The U.S. Army had built fortifications to hold the city. Much of Hood's line was parallel to today's Woodmont Boulevard, but the left (about 5,500 men) turned south along Hillsborough Pike. On the 15th, about 45,000 U.S. troops struck the left forcing it to retreat to Granny White Pike. The Bradford ladies and friends were at the Bradford schoolhouse, near their home, when retreating troops began to stream pass. Mary observed a Confederate officer striking one of his soldiers with the flat part of his sword, trying to rally his men. Mary ran out to scold the officer, but when she understood the situation she stayed to help rally the men. A post-bellum poem claimed a bullet grazed her cheek. In General Hood's autobiography, he wrote "When our troops were in the greatest confusion, a young lady of Tennessee, Miss Mary Bradford, rushed in their midst regardless of the storm of bullets, and in the name of God and our country implored them to reform and face the enemy. Her name deserves to be enrolled among the heroes of the war."
16. MTOLIV_070131_280.JPG: Felix Grundy
17. MTOLIV_070131_292.JPG: Thomas Benton Smith (1838-1923): ... In August 1864, the U.S. Army attempted to cut the railroad supplying Atlanta. They attacked a portion of the C.S. line held by Bate's Division and largely that part held by the brigade Smith commanded. They repulsed three assaults and won the praise of a superior: "Soldiers who fight with the coolness and determination that these men did, will always be victorious over any reasonable number." Unfortunately, the U.S. defeat resulted in their bringing in longer-range artillery to "knock down the buildings of the town." ... Smith and his Tennesseans were on Shy's Hill on December 16 when the line to their right broke. Most on the hill, including Smith, were captured. After surrendering, a U.S. Army colonel used his sword to beat Smith's skull open. A surgeon pushed him aside thinking he was about to die. Miraculously, Smith lived another 58 years. But the wound led to Smith's insanity bringing him to live in the old Central State hospital.
18. MTOLIV_070131_295.JPG: Thomas Benton Smith
19. MTOLIV_070131_299.JPG: Confederate Circle
20. MTOLIV_070131_302.JPG: Meredith Poindexter Gentry
21. MTOLIV_070131_313.JPG: Adolphus Heiman (1809-1862): ... [ a stone cutter ], Heiman's first works this side of the Atlantic [after emigrating from Prussia in 1834] were in Louisiana. He worked on the Lake Pontchartrain Canal and the Customs House still standing on Canal in New Orleans. It was stone quarries that brought Heiman to Nashville in 1836. So many of Heiman's great local works have been destroyed that only those remaining are recalled here: University of Nashville structure on 2nd Ave, St. Mary's Church on 5th Ave, Belmont Mansion, at least some work on Belle Meade, and the holding vault now known as Mount Olivet Confederate Memorial Hall. Other Heiman buildings stand in Alabama. .... [After joining the CSA as an engineer] Heiman was serving at Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. He had experience from the Mexican War which helped him organize troops. He organized the 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment from companies of men of Irish ancestry. They adopted the nickname Sons of Erin and their battle flag held a gold harp on a green field. Randal McGavock, buried in Section One, was elected lieutenant colonel. They fought well as did the rest of the army; however, the fort was surrendered and they became prisoners of war. Imprisonment shattered Heiman's health. Though he was released thru exchange, he died soon afterward. A Tennessee River fort just inside Kentucky was named for Heiman and preservation efforts are making it a public site.
22. MTOLIV_070131_343.JPG: James E. Rains
23. MTOLIV_070131_346.JPG: Rachael Carter Craighead (1837-1924): [Rachael's father was a bank president.] The fall of Fort Donelson in February 1862 led to the surrender of Nashville to U.S. forces. Andrew Johnston was installed as military governor. The citizens were terrorized by demands that they take loyalty oaths to the U.S. government. City council members refused and were unseated. Newspapers were shut down when their editors refused. Likewise, churches were confiscated when their ministers declined the oath. Bankers were the next group to be sent to the penitentiary. Carter finally relented apparently feeling his first duty was to the bank. Rachael's husband was also imprisoned, and manipulated into signing the oath. During the summer of 1862 Confederate forces began a bold advance toward Kentucky thinking that the state was anxious to be liberated from U.S. control. This accelerated efforts by the U.S. Army to fortify Nashville. Eight servants belonging to the Carters were forced to build structures such as Fort Negley. On October 8, 1862, Rachael's brother John Carter was wounded and captured in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Rachael and her mother received word and traveled north to nurse him. John passed away on January 18, 1863, and is also buried here. Rachael's diary entry for September 29, 1863 recorded one of the worst disasters in Nashville history. The Maxwell House Hotel was still under construction when it was confiscated by the U.S. government, to serve as a prison. About 126 Confederate prisoners were marched down a temporary four-flight staircase. It collapsed, killing 45 and wounding many more. When local ladies came with bandages. U.S. troops drove them back with bayonets. The C.S. Army of Tennessee made one last attempt to liberate Nashville in December 1864. With about 22,000 men, that army stretched a thin line across the south side of the city. For over two years, the Carters could sit in their parlor and see cannon on Capitol Hill pointed at their house. Likewise, guns at Fort Negley were pointed toward town. On the 1st, Rachael wrote that Fort Negley looked like an illuminated city. Over 70,000 U.S. troops won the battle on the 15th and 16th, ending hopes of liberation.
24. MTOLIV_070131_354.JPG: William Brimage Bate (1826-1905): ... After Tennessee seceded from the U.S. in 1861, Bate was elected colonel of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry. At Shiloh (April 1862) a brother and two other relatives were killed and another wounded. Bate was shot in the leg as he led a charge. A surgeon was discouraged from amputating it when Bate pulled a pistol. He kept the pistol under his pillow in case of another "offer". Bate spent the rest of the war on a crutch. His heroism at Shiloh led to promotion to brigadier general. In the great victory at Chickamauga (Sept 1863), Bate's Brigade broke through the U.S. infantry, and only a line of 20 cannon halted his advance. Casualties were nearly half the brigade, and he had three horses shot out from under him. The U.S. Army retreated to Chattanooga where they defeated the Army of Tennessee in November. Bate's conduct of the rear guard east of Missionary Ridge led to promotion to major general. [Bate commanded a division under Cheatham in the Atlanta campaign.] Bate remained with the Army of Tennessee until it surrendered in North Carolina in 1865. ... Bate was elected governor in 1882, and to the U.S. Senate in 1886. He remained there until his death, and now lies beside Julia. ...
25. MTOLIV_070131_358.JPG: William B. Bate
26. MTOLIV_070131_372.JPG: Benjamin F. ("Frank") Cheatham
27. MTOLIV_070131_385.JPG: "This monument of granite is dedicated to the memory of the soldiers and sailors of the World War who sleep in Mt. Olivet. The gratitude and devotion of the living will stand guard forever as loyal sentinels over these brave sons of freedom who gave their lives that liberty might live."
28. MTOLIV_070131_389.JPG: "Buried in this quadrant, part of the vast unknown Confederate soldiers who were first buried where they fell in battle."
Wikipedia Description: Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 250 acre (1 km�) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Mount Olivet has been continuously operated since its initial establishment in 1856. It serves as the final resting place for many of Middle Tennessee's political and business leaders, including several former governors of Tennessee, U.S. Senators, and U.S. Congressional Representatives. Additionally, "Confederate Circle" honors many who served on the Confederate side in the American Civil War. About 1,500 soldiers are buried there. In the 1990s, a funeral home was added to the grounds of Mount Olivet.

For many years, interment at Mount Olivet was limited to white Protestants. Even though this policy was eliminated decades ago, tradition has dictated that this remains very largely the case. In part as a result, the adjacent Calvary Cemetery (to the west) serves a similar function for Middle Tennessee Catholics the two facilities are separated only by grass - one can walk through both cemeteries at the same time, although separate entrances exist and cars cannot pass between the two. Approximately one mile (1.6 km) to the south is Greenwood Cemetery, where a large number of Middle Tennessee's most prominent African American residents are buried.

Mount Olivet Cemetery is located at 1101 Lebanon Road, approximately two miles (three km) east of downtown Nashville. It is open to the public during daylight hours.

Notable burials:
Adelicia Acklen, wealthy Nashville businesswoman and socialite
William B. Bate, Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887, American Civil War general
John Bell, United States Senator and Presidential candidate
Aaron V. Brown, Governor of Tennessee from 1845 to 1847 and United States Postmaster General from 1857 to 1859
Jesse Babcock Ferguson, one-time minister of the Nashville Church of Christ, later associated Spiritualism and Universalism
Joseph Wellington Byrns, United States Congressman and Speaker of the House
John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin F. ("Frank") Cheatham, Confederate general during the American Civil War
Thomas F. Frist Sr., co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and father of the current majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Bill Frist
Meredith Poindexter Gentry, United States Congressman
Alvan Cullem Gillem, Civil War Union general and post-bellum Indian fighter
Felix Grundy, United States Senator and Attorney General
E. Bronson Ingram, founder of Ingram Industries Inc., parent of the nation's largest book distributor and other major companies
Howell Edmunds Jackson, United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice
Thomas A. Kercheval, Tennessee State Senator and Mayor of Nashville
David Lipscomb, founder of Nashville Bible School (now Lipscomb University)
Jack C. Massey, entrepreneur who helped found or take public Hospital Corporation of America, Kentucky Fried Chicken and two other NYSE-listed companies
Hill McAlister, Governor of Tennessee from 1933 to 1937
J. O. McClurkan, founder of the Literary and Bible Training School for Christian Workers (now Trevecca Nazarene University)
Benton McMillin, Governor of Tennessee from 1899 to 1903
John Overton, friend of Andrew Jackson and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee
James E. Rains, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro
Fred Rose, music publishing executive
Thomas G. Ryman, steamboat captain, Nashville businessman, and builder of Ryman Auditorium
Vernon K. Stevenson, first president of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Ernest Stoneman, country music performer
Marcia Trimble, young rape and murder victim of crime in which Nashville was said to have "lost its innocence"
Samuel Watkins, founder of Watkins Institute (now Watkins College of Art and Design)
Del Wood, pianist
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