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Confederate Gravesites & Old Trace
Mile Post 269.4 |
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Confederate Gravesites & Old Trace
Distance to Nearest Parkway Restroom 17.3 Miles North to Pharr Mounds 3.4 Miles South to Parkway Visitor Center Distance to Nearest Gas Stations 1.3 Miles North to MS Hwy 363 Then 1.5 Miles West 3.4 Miles South to MS Hwy 145 Then 1.2 Miles South |
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Confederate Gravesites & Old Trace During the Civil War, several Confederate soldiers died at this place along the Old Trace. No one is sure how they died, and time erased their names from their original headstones. Who were they? Tradition holds that they were Confederate soldiers who marched and camped along the Old Trace. The beginning of the trail is slightly steep. Its a 700' paved walkway that will lead you to a short original section of the Old Trace and to the thirteen modern grave markers where you can contemplate what it may have been like for these soldiers when they gave their all. (National Park Service) |
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Thirteen Unknown Confederate Graves Were they some of Shiloh's wounded who retreated here in 1862 to die beside the Natchez Trace? Did they serve under the daring General Nathan Forest who passed this way in 1864? Or were they guarding the Tupelo headquarters of J. B. Hood's Army of the Tennessee near the end of the Civil War? We may never know. Tradition holds that the unknown graves in front of you belong to Confederate soldiers who marched and camped along this stretch of the Old Trace. Perhaps they died of wounds, or the lingering hunger, poverty, and sickness in the army camps. Their simple grave markers face backwards -- toward the Trace -- so travelers might read and remember. (National Park Service) |
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Confederate Gravesites & Old Trace
Mile Post 269.4 |
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