Organized on May 10, 1866, the Ladies' Memorial Association of Fredericksburg established, owns and maintains the Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery. The Association cares for the graves and honors those Confederate soldiers who died in this area's four battles of the War Between the States.

The Cemetery was dedicated in May of 1870 to 3,553 men from 14 states who were reinterred here -- including five Confederate Generals.

The Cemetery is a major Fredericksburg historic attraction with 150,000 visitors each year. It is open free of charge seven days a week. Association members are available to assist researchers. We maintain listings and biographical information of soldiers buried in the Cemetery. Since 1867, the Association has held an annual Memorial Day ceremony in the Cemetery.

Washington Avenue, where the Cemetery is located, is the most traveled thoroughfare in the City of Fredericksburg. More visitors traverse this street than any other in our city and the Cemetery is an integral part of the history that these visitors come to see.

Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans Plans New Monument

The Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, is planning a monument to honor 51 Confederate soldiers on the site of their burial in the Barton Street Cemetery near Maury Commons (the former Maury School}.

Long Forgotten, their burial records were discovered in 1992 by historian Robert A. Hodge. In his "Once Forgotten, but Now Remembered," he detailed their history, with individual biographies, for the Ladies' Memorial Association, who placed a plaque on the Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery's Confederate Monument.

The soldiers, from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, with one unknown, died between October 1861 and March 1862. They are documented in the 1861-1871 Parish Register of St. George's Episcopal Church.

The Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp's Monument will be on the actual site of their burial. Maury Camp member Roy B. Perry, Jr., project chairman, notes that "The City has graciously allowed us to mark this site with a monument to remember these soldiers as part of our local history."

The Maury Camp currently has the monument base, but needs to raise $2,200 to purchase a plaque and install the monument.

Contributions may be sent to Maury Camp 1722, 1032 Conway Rd., Fredericksburg, VA, 22405. Please note on your check "Barton Street Cemetery Project."

Members of the Matthew Fontaine Mary Camp, SCV, assist the Ladies' Memorial Association in many ways. Their latest project for us was cleaning soldiers' damaged stones so that they could be repaired.