Fort Tyler Cemetery

Fort Tyler Cemetery is a Georgia historical marker in Troup County, dedicated 1953.

In Pinewood Cemetery, on US 29 in West Point.

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One hundred feet east in brick walled enclosure are buried 76 brave men, Confederate and Federal, killed or died of wounds in the siege of Fort Tyler. This engagement occurred April 16, 1865, a whole week after the surrender of General Lee [CS] at Appomattox. Only 19 of these graves are marked with names or initials. In the northeast corner are buried General R. C. Tyler and Captain Gonzales who were killed while commanding the [CS] forces defending Fort Tyler against great odds.

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1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1909 · Opelika, Alabama (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Fort Tyler Cemetery, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1866, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Fort Tyler Cemetery

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