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Name:               Kittrell Confederate Cemetery
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                      Kittrell Confederate Cemetery

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                       Hospital to Graveyard

Fifty-four Confederate soldiers from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
and Virginia are buried here. They died at General Hospital Number One, 
Kittrell Springs, in former Kittrell Springs Hotel owned by Maj. Charles C. 
Blacknall and his brother. The resort was converted
into a hospital in mid-1864 to treat casualties of the fighting around 
Petersburg, Virginia. Confederate authorities chose Kittrell for the small, 
300-bed hospital because of its location at a railroad junction.

Hundreds of wounded received treatment there between June 1864 and April 1865. 
Some were teenaged youths in the North Carolina Junior Reserves; 14 died at 
the hospital between August 1, 1864, and April 15, 1865, and are buried here. 
The site for the cemetery was selected 
because of its proximity to the hospital.

Saint James Episcopal Church, the only church in Kittrell during the war, was 
erected just east of the hotel shortly before the war. The Rev. Matthias M. 
Marshall ministered to the sick and dying at the hospital and officiated at 
the soldiers' funerals, which were held at the church. 
The men's names, ranks, companies, addresses, types of illness, dates of 
admission, and times and dates of death are recorded in the church's official 
records. 

Kittrell Confederate Cemetery is owned and maintained by Vance County Chapter 
No. 142, United Daughters of the Confederacy.


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