Randolph County AlArchives Military Records......, . Sixty-Five CSA Markers Placed May 4, 1928 Civilwar ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net July 29, 2006, 12:52 pm Gen. Weathers Reports On Markers For Graves "The Roanoke Leader" Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 16, 1928 GENERAL WEATHERS REPORTS ON MARKERS FOR GRAVES Headquarters of Aiken-Smith Camp No. 293, United Confederate Veterans, Roanoke, Ala., May 4, 1928 The commander of the camp makes the following report and comments: The patriotic citizens of Roanoke have placed at Confederate Veterans' graves, sixty-five iron Confederate grave markers at sixty-five graves; however not all in Roanoke cemetery. Fifteen of them are in other cemeteries; Rock Mills, Five Points, Wedowee, Lane's Chapel, High Pine, four in Georgia, and fifty in Roanoke. The entire cost was $130. Future generations, in walking through the Roanoke cemetery will halt and pause for a moment at iron marked graves and in mind and heart say, "Here lies the remains of a Confederate hero who spent the best part of his life in defense of his home and country." Many poured out their life's blood on the battlefield with no headstone giving name to mark the place where his bones are mouldering in the dust. Many wounded who shed their blood survived. Many were made invalids for life. Many sickened and died. In the early part of the war the Confederates were victorious but were later overwhelmed in numbers, four to one, by the unlimited resources of Grant's army. The Confederate army, without further shedding of blood, surrendered and stacked arms. Of the hundreds of battles all were fought on Southern soil except one north of the Mason and Dixon line. The Federal soldiers, flushed with victory, proudly returned to their homes. The Confederates, ragged and barefoooted, made their way back to their wasted homes as best they could, and at once went to work without a dollar to rebuild, no means except their willpower. At the end of the war it was the Confederate soldier that made the Southern states fit to live in and paved the way and made it possible for the prosperous conditions of the country today. Names of Confederate veterans buried at Roanoke cemeteries: Rev. J.B. Stevenson Rev. J.P. Shaffer Rev. J.C. Jackson Rev. S.H. Striplin W.A. Handley J.A. Hardy I.G. Hill G.W. Hill S.S. Waller J.H. Radney Samuel Fausett Andrew Slay John Adcock H.M. Mickle J.M. Ward A.J. Longshore Leonidas Jones D.C. White Bish Holder J.A. Sharp J.H. Oldham Dr. Wm. Weathers Dr. W.H. Pool Major J.T. Smith W.D. Davis James Culberson John W. Wood B.H. Kiser E.H. Disharoon S.D. Burdett J.T. Coleman S.H. Carlisle H.W. Davis M.R. Taylor T.F. Ussery W.H. Bass John Mulkey Joe Swint W.D. Ford H.W. Vinson Peter Miller J.W. McDonnough W.C. Orr William Rogers R.J. Higgins Roll Willingham Pate Nichols John A. Grice J.B.C. Ambrose A few in the cemeteries have no markers. Their graves could not be located. Submitted by B.F. Weathers, Commander of Camp File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/military/civilwar/other/247gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb