Southerners at Rest - Confederate Dead at Hollywood Cemetery

Christopher L Ferguson

ISBN 10: 0971195048 / ISBN 13: 9780971195042

Published by Angle Valley Press, Winchester, VA, USA, 2008

About this Item

Quarto-size, 336 pages (xx, 316) consisting entirely of tabular data, each row corresponding to one casualty, with name, regiment, dates and location of burial plot; publisher's scarlet cloth with gilt titles on the spine; grey pictorial dust-jacket. Fine, unread. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free. Heavy book - extra charges will be needed for shipping overseas (packed weight 1.3 kg).

Seller Inventory # 153065

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Southerners at Rest - Confederate Dead at Hollywood Cemetery
• Publisher: Angle Valley Press, Winchester, VA, USA
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971195048
• ISBN 13: 9780971195042
• Binding: Hardcover/Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: signed by author or artist
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Affairs

About this title

Synopsis

Not since 1869 has somebody taken the time to update the list of Confederate dead buried in one of the most beautiful and sacred places Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. Cemetery. Those who relied on the 1869 list found it filled with so many inaccuracies as to be almost unusable. The thousands of Southern soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for their young country and were buried at Hollywood, usually with little pomp or ceremony, have been waiting for proper recognition for a long time. Many of these men have faced the injustice of having a wrong name or unit etched into their headstone. They have been relegated to obscurity and abandonment because their descendants knew not where to look. Now, thanks to Hollywood Cemetery expert and historian Chris Ferguson, the cry of these brave soldiers from across the ages has finally been answered. Ferguson has spent many painstaking hours scouring various archives and pouring over countless documents to give these soldiers their due. He

About the Author

A native of Georgia, Chris Ferguson grew up in Atlanta where he attended Georgia State University. He has been employed in various capacities in the financial services arena since 1974 and currently resides in Winchester, Virginia. This is his second book covering the Confederate history of Hollywood Cemetery.