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Thomasville's City Cemetery, dating to about 1860, holds a common plot where 34 soldiers who died in the town's makeshift Civil War hospitals are buried together, Confederate and Union alike. It is one of three Civil War Trails stops in downtown Thomasville.
In March 1865, 280 wounded men arrived by train from the Averasboro battlefield. Baptist and Methodist churches were pressed into service as hospitals, and the L.L. Thomas Hotel served as headquarters. Of those who died, 26 were Confederates, 4 were Federals and 4 were unknown, and all were buried together in one plot. In 1908 a Georgian who had served in the hospital raised funds for headstones as a tribute to the soldiers and to the local residents who nursed them.
Details
- Address
- 205 Memorial Park Dr, Thomasville, NC, Thomasville, NC
- Town
- Thomasville
- Cemetery established
- circa 1860
- Soldiers buried in common plot
- 34 (26 Confederate, 4 Union, 4 unknown)
- Headstones placed
- 1908
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