Appomattox Court House Confederate Cemetery

Union and Confederate forces engaged in combat near here on 8 and 9 April 1865, in the closing days of the Civil War. A number of Confederate soldiers who died during this campaign were buried outside formal cemeteries. Local women established the Ladies Memorial Association of Appomattox in May 1866 to provide a final resting place for these soldiers, which they later named Clover Hill Cemetery. Here, on land donated by John Sears, the bodies of 18 Confederates were reinterred on 1 Dec. 1866. The names of 10 of them are unknown. Also buried here is one unknown Union soldier.