HALIFAX COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Soldiers’ Graves
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Soldiers’ graves:
                  1937 Feb. 11
                  Research made by Mrs. Walter R. Ragland

Cemetery Location:  3 miles east of South Boston, Virginia, on Route #728, 
                    thence south 1 mile on plantation road.
                    Halifax County


DATE:

1865.

OWNERS:

Dr. Coleman,  C.S. Glasscock, present owner. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The United Daughters of the Confederacy have put an iron fence around these 
graves and erected a marker over them.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


Here is found the graves of five Confederate Soldiers who were killed in a train 
wreck on Dr. Coleman’s place, on the Southern Rail Road, between Richmond and 
Danville.  Richmond was being evacuated and these soldiers were being sent to 
Danville on an old freight box car.  Just before getting to South Boston the car 
fell to pieces, causing a wreck.  R. H. Dowdy and a Mr. Sydnor were on the same 
train but not in the same car.  These men told of the accident.

The following inscription is on the marker erected by the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy in memory of these soldiers:

Samuel Copeland
Nathaniel Daniel
and three unknown comrades.
7th Georgia Reg’t.
C.S.A.
Killed in train wreck here
April 3, 1865
Erected by Halifax
County Chapter
U.D.C. Va. Div.
1933


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  C.S. Glasscock, South Boston, Virginia

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