confederate cemetery

It's not often you can feel the weight of time and history around you but here can.To paraphrase another member: "The crosses at this Civil War graveyard were pulled up by a maintenance crew and determining the location of the graves here was lost. All the remains is a single marker honoring the dead there. The number of bodies that lie there is unknown. It is a beautiful and simple memorial with an interesting past."

The cemetery is a chunk of history near the football stadium and the basketball arena. It's worth a visit for anyone visiting Ole Miss. Most of the people buried there were KIA at Shiloh.

Some time ago, the headstones at this Civil War graveyard were pulled up for maintenance, and the diagram determining the location of the Confederate dead interred there was lost. All the remains is a single marker honoring the dead there. The number of bodies that lie there is unknown. It is a beautiful and simple memorial with an interesting past.

When we visited the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, for the first time in 2003, we were there to watch the Alabama/Ole Miss football game. When we visited the second time, it was to see the statue of James Meredith, the first black student to be enrolled at Ole Miss in 1962. We never had a clue about the Confederate Cemetery. We learned about it by chance. While I was browsing through the Ole Miss book store next to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on the campus, I asked one of the clerks if there was something of an historic or human-interest nature that we hadn't seen that we should see before we leave. "Have you seen the Confederate Cemetery?" she asked. We walked outside and she pointed to a grove of trees and empty space past the football stadium and the basketball Coliseum. "There it is," she said. My wife and I walked to the historic cemetery, a fenced-in property of old, weathered tombstones containing the graves of the University Grays, a regiment of Ole Miss students that was virtually wiped out during fighting at Gettysburg in the Civil War in 1863. If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't have known. In 2003, the property was still serene, quiet, alone. Today, however, the university is in the midst of a massive construction program and several new buildings (including a large indoor football practice facility) are encroaching on the cemetery. May the University Grays continue to rest in peace.

Located right next door to the basketball stadium on campus, there is a marker in the middle with plaque and names of soldiers.If you like Civil War history, and are in Oxford must go see.I'd like to know more about the history, the missing grave stones, and the ground penetrating radar survey they have done.At the main gate facing the center marker, to the left is a very old tree. I bet it has some stories.

Hidden away behind a collapsing brick wall, the Confederate Cemetery on the Ole Miss campus is worth a thoughtful visit. It is next to the athletics office (I think) and the football stadium looms nearby. Though a Yankee through and through, I was moved by the starkness and simplicity of the cemetery. There is only one monument which states that most of the bodies interred there were casualties of the battle at Shiloh. A few names are listed. The vast majority died as unknowns. The 450 to 700 men, including a few federal troops, died at the hospital that was set up at the university. Having visited the Shiloh battlefield the day before, I was fully primed to appreciate this place and the ordeal that these men were put through.

It is easy to find if you use the Tad Smith basketball coliseum as your marker. Following Shiloh the Civil War continued into Corinth, Brice's Cross Roads and into Oxford, MS. About 700 mostly confederate soldiers have a quiet, respectful resting place surrounded by a fence made of stone salvaged from a former dorm. Many people don't look up the history of Oxford and fail to consider the down was burned in 1864 nor that there was no classes in 1861 due to the enlistment into Confederate service of virtually all students. Take some time to visit this peaceful place. Then go see the Lyceum where James Meredith had trouble enrolling 101 years later as well a monument on campus marking that important moment of Civil Rights. Oxford is a great side trip for Civil War buffs seeing Shiloh or folks making trips to Memphis for its music (Stax, Sun & Graceland) or BBQ. (Bathrooms typically accessible at adjacent basketball arena or at other public buildings on campus).

I googled the history of the Confederate Cemetery before I went to look at it. It's always interesting to see where parts of our past come from. It's not often you see a cemetery right by a college football stadium.

Unfortunately there are no markers, but there are the remains of several hundred soldiers there, on a rise overlooking Ole Miss. Moving as any military cemetery should be.

I had a really hard time finding this site. It is up on a hill above a parking lot opposite Manning blvd on the Ole Miss campus. There is not much to see admittedly. It did evoke an eerie feeling. If you walk around the ground has the unevenness of a graveyard.

This attaction had 3 small confederate flags, one laying on the ground at the base of a huge block of granite in the middle of a grassy enclosed field. Broken irregular concrete stepping stones lead you from street entrance to the middle of the field. The monument is simple. The history is plain. 700 soldiers are buried here. Did they know what they were fighting for? Don't think too long or it will overcome you. They were injured soldier- patients that didn't make it after the battle at Shiloh. The university was a war hospital at the time. As I was reading the names on the monument, a lady bug landed and walked along side. As I turned and left, a black beetle scurried in front of me on the broken stepping stone. I took a deep breath and went back to my car.

Although the cemetery isn't advertised nor are there any 'markers' above the graves, if one knows the story behind the empty field, one will understand that the cemetery still holds a special place in Ole Miss history. As graveyard for Confederate soldiers (and rumored Yankee soldiers as well), don't go expecting a big show or a Civil War reenactment. An empty field with a single tall marker is all you will find in this cemetery behind the Tad Pad. Although empty, one can imagine the young burying the dead in this field, just as empty as it was during the Civil War. It's a good place to go at night especially, because no one is there. Just knowing you are there, walking among past fallen soldiers is enough for the Confederate Cemetery to be special, headstones or not.

We visit this and drop a shot of bourbon in honor of one of the soldiers on the tombstone. Very reverend and very tranquil.

We enjoyed our visit to the cemetery. It is true, there are no individual grave stones but if you read the history, you would realize the reason. Seems a grounds keeper took up the headstones to mow and couldn't remember where they went. The monument in the middle lists all the names.

If this is the cemetary out back of the basketball arena, then it should not be advertised at all. We made a point of visiting it while on campus with our student son. Plainly put, it is a weed patch! The location is surrounded by a 3-4 foot wall with an archway entrance as I recall. I'm trying to guess the place to be about 200' by 200'. Now the "capper" is that there are no markers! It is a big weed patch as I said before. I could see if this was a Union graveyard there might not be alot of enthusiasm in keeping it up. Rather sad.