CROWN HILL CONFEDERATE

Greenlawn Cemetery Toward Reconciliation The State of purchased fve lots in Greenlawn On May 30, 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic decorated Cemetery in 1862 for prisoner burials. A local undertaker Union and Confederate graves at Arlington National Cemetery. charged $3.50 for each wooden cofn. Prisoners dug burial Thirty years later President William McKinley proclaimed: trenches and placed the cofns side-by-side. Numbered The Union is once more the common altar of our love and headboards marked graves. After the war, some remains were loyalty, our devotion and sacrifce . . . Every soldier’s grave removed by friends or relatives. In 1870, some unclaimed made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American remains were moved to a diferent cemetery lot owned by the valor . . . in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in federal government. the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers.

In 1906, when the Commission for Marking Graves of The War Department created the Confederate section Confederate prisoners at , c. 1864. Library of Congress. Confederate Dead visited Greenlawn Cemetery, it discovered at Arlington in 1901, and marked the graves with some burials had been distinctive pointed-top marble headstones. Five years Camp Morton moved and the land later, Congress created the Commission for Marking converted into a city Graves of Confederate Dead to identify and mark the Camp Morton, a training camp, was established on the park. As individual graves graves of Confederates who died in Northern prisons. Indiana State Fairgrounds in after President could not be identifed, Its mission was later expanded to encompass all national Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the a single monument was that contained Confederate burials. Southern rebellion. Thousands of Indiana volunteers trained authorized for the site. at the camp in 1861 before leaving for active duty. Van Amringe Granite Four former Confederate ofcers headed the Company of Boston, Commission over its lifetime. By 1916, it had marked On February 16, 1862, Fort Donelson, a Confederate Massachusetts, completed in excess of 25,500 graves and erected monuments in stronghold on the Cumberland River west of Clarksville, the impressive monument locations where individual graves could not be identifed. Tennessee, surrendered. Suddenly, the had 15,000 in 1909. Bronze plaques Confederate prisoners and no place to house them. Indiana In 1930, the War Department authorized the addition Monument at Greenlawn Cemetery, 1910. National listed the names of 1,616 Governor Oliver Morton ofered to take 3,000 prisoners at Archives and Records Administration. of the Southern Cross of Honor to the Confederate Confederate dead. Camp Morton; from this time, it functioned as a prison. headstone. The area around the government lot continued to develop. In preparation for the prisoners’ arrival, soldiers constructed The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Southern Club a tall fence around barracks buildings, built stout gates, and of Indianapolis petitioned the federal government to move dug latrines. When the Confederates arrived without winter the Confederate monument to Garfeld Park. The monument clothing or blankets, the women of Indianapolis donated both. moved in 1928, but the graves remained. In 1931, the A prisoner exchange emptied the camp in summer 1862, but Confederate remains were disinterred and moved to Crown it was repopulated in January 1863. The population fuctuated Hill Cemetery. Here they were marked by a modest monument. North Alton Confederate Cemetery until the camp closed in June 1865. But more than 1,600 Ten bronze name plaques, and a bronze inscription plaque Monument, 1909, Alton, Ill. Original Commission headstone (left) and Confederates remained in Indianapolis’s Greenlawn Cemetery. afxed to the monument, were installed in 1993. headstone with Southern Cross of Honor (right).

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