Posting on this Memorial Day Weekend, I thought the photos of the Confederate Cemetery we visited while in Raleigh might be appropriate. It was sadly sobering to see how young these men were and that so many died in the same year, 1863.
From a website featuring NC history was the following, "Oakwood was initially a Confederate Cemetery founded after the Civil War in 1866 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Wake County. The 2 ¼ acre lot was bestowed by Henry Mordecai who was a successful businessman and public official in Raleigh. This group of local women desired to establish a permanent burial ground for Confederate soldiers who were previously buried at the Raleigh National Cemetery."
