This survey was conducted by Richard White on 13 October 1999.

CONFEDERATE GRAVES:

To find the Confederate graves in the Old City Cemetery in Tallahassee, enter the gate from Martin Luther King Boulevard (formerly known as Boulevard Street) on the east side.  The gate is at or near the center of the cemetery.  Turn left and proceed towards the southeastern corner.

The Confederate graves are situated near the southeastern corner of the cemetery.  There is only one marked grave between fence at the eastern side of the cemetery and the marked Confederate graves, though they are a distance of 30 feet or more from the fence.  The Confederate grave markers face east.  Looking west towards the markers, there is also a distance of about 15 feet between the first Confederate grave marker, which stands alone at the far right, and the first row of grave markers which runs from near the fence along Park Avenue to an alignment with that first single marker.  The distance from the single marker to the first row is approximately double the distance between the rows of markers, and can be envisioned as another row, devoid of markers.  Each row consists of 12 more or less equally spaced positions although there are gaps lacking markers, and the approximately 6 foot lateral spacing between graves allowed placement of an extra marker between positions on one row.  Although a 1899 tally concluded that there were 186 burials in Confederate section of the Old City Cemetery, there are only 55 markers of all types (including those bearing no name) within the Confederate section.   The following is a graphic representation of their layout:

The xes represent markers and the 0s indicate that there is no marker in that position.  Information shown on each marker is as follows:

A 12 - Sherod B. Shehee : C.S.A. 61-65
C  1 - W. Doughtry : C.S.A. 61-65
C  2 - O. C. Smith : C.S.A. 61-65
C  3 - Charles Jones : C.S.A. 61-65
C  4 - J. Stewart : C.S.A. 61-65
C  5 - Raizen Lee : C.S.A. 61-65
C  7 - A. Hopson : C.S.A. 61-65
C  8 - William Arnold : C.S.A. 61-65
C  9 - W. J. Meeks : C.S.A. 61-65
C 10 - J. Farnell : C.S.A. 61-65
C 11 - E. J. Barnes : C.S.A. 61-65
C 12 - L. H. Woodward (the part of the stone that said C.S.A. 61-65 has been broken off and the stone has been reset in concrete)

D  1 - James Hilliard : C.S.A. 61-65
D  2 - J. Spear : C.S.A. 61-65
D  3 - J. Poole : C.S.A. 61-65
D  4 - Richard Roberts : C.S.A. 61-65
D  4 1/2 - In Memory of : Sidney McNealy : Born : Oct. 11th 1839 : Died : July 9th 1862

D  5 - J. Hollandsworth : C.S.A. 61-65
D  6 - Samuel Pool : C.S.A. 61-65
D  7 - John Quincy Boatwright : C.S.A. 61-65
D  8 - John Hinson : C.S.A. 61-65
D  9 - William Lucas : C.S.A. 61-65
D 10 - J. Hopson : C.S.A. 61-65
D 11 - William Roberts : C.S.A. 61-65
D 12 - (broken grave stone with no writing on it)
E  1 - Tom Ford : C.S.A. 61-65
E  2 - James Mouchet : C.S.A. 61-65
E  3 - M. Sidney : C.S.A. 61-65
E  4 - James French : C.S.A. 61-65
E  5 - Asa Holt : C.S.A. 61-65
E  6 - Joseph Hinson : C.S.A. 61-65
E  7 - Daniel Russell : C.S.A. 61-65
E  8 - J. J. Ivey : C.S.A. 61-65
E  9 - T. J. Painter : C.S.A. 61-65
E 10 - Jack Morgan : C.S.A. 61-65
E 11 - W. P. Delt : C.S.A. 61-65
E 12 - Joseph Hale : C.S.A. 61-65
F  1 - Geo. Center : 1804-1864 : Captain : 2nd Fla. Cav. : C.S.A. : Medal of Honor

F  2 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  3 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  4 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  5 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  7 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  8 - C.S.A. 61-65
F  9 - C.S.A. 61-65
F 10 - C.S.A. 61-65
F 11 - C.S.A. 61-65
F 12 - C.S.A. 61-65
G  5 - C.S.A. 61-65
G  6 - C.S.A. 61-65
G  7 - C.S.A. 61-65
G  8 - C.S.A. 61-65
G  9 - C.S.A. 61-65
G 10 - C.S.A. 61-65
G 11 - C.S.A. 61-65

Lillian Henderson's book, Soldiers of Georgia, includes the names of a number of soldiers in Georgia units who died at military camps and hospitals in Leon and Wakulla Counties, or who were recorded as being admitted to a hospital in Tallahassee but no further record exists.  It is remarkable that none of those so named are included in the marked burials at the Old City Cemetery.  It seems reasonable. however, to assume that at least some of these soldiers are buried in Tallahassee's Old City Cemetery.  To see a list of those soldiers, click here.
 

The Old City Cemetery is laid out with a road traversing it east/west down the center and the remnants of a line of wall (now broken off at about ground level) and cane thicket quartering it north/south in a racial division... white burials being to the east and negro burials being to the west.

Union burials also run from the south fence, a short distance past the divider.  Again, the graves are widely spaced laterally, and though there is an apparent grid layout, there are irregularities in adhering to that layout.  There are wider spaces between positions 6 and 7 and 11 and 12 in each row, and while the alignment is fairly exact at the south end of the rows it staggers a bit near their north ends.  There is also one grave that appears to be deliberately placed to occupy 2 spaces.

The graves are in two rows laid out as follows:

   1  2  3  4  5  6    7  8  9 10 11   12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22

B  x  x  x  x  x  x    x  x  x  x  x    x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x

A  x  x  x  x  x  x    x  0  x  x  x    x  x  x    x   x  0  0  0  0

The xes represent markers and the 0s indicate that there is no marker in that position.  Information shown on each marker is as follows:

A  1 - U.S. Soldier
A  2 - U.S. Soldier
A  3 - U.S. Soldier
A  4 - U.S. Soldier
A  5 - U.S. Soldier
A  6 - U.S. Soldier
A  7 - Michael McLennon : Soldier Co. A 7 Infantry : Died Tallahassee Fla. : March 16 1867 aged 37¹ years

A  9 - Dan'l O'Kane, 7th U.S. Inf.
A 10 - U.S. Soldier
A 11 - U.S. Soldier
A 12 - U.S. Soldier
A 13 - U.S. Soldier
A 14 - U.S. Soldier
A 15 1/2 - Edward Hays : of Co. E 7^th Reg^t. : Died at Quincey (sic) Fla : Feb 27, 1866 : Aged 46 yrs. : Erected by the Company

A 17 - U.S. Soldier
B  1 - U.S. Soldier
B  2 - U.S. Soldier
B  3 - Wm. Stanton : 7th U.S. Inf.
B  4 - U.S. Soldier
B  5 - U.S. Soldier
B  6 - U.S. Soldier
B  7 - U.S. Soldier
B  8 - U.S. Soldier
B  9 - U.S. Soldier
B 10 - U.S. Soldier
B 11 - U.S. Soldier
B 12 - U.S. Soldier
B 13 - U.S. Soldier
B 14 - U.S. Soldier
B 15 - U.S. Soldier
B 16 - U.S. Soldier
B 17 - U.S. Soldier
B 18 - U.S. Soldier
B 19 - U.S. Soldier
B 20 - U.S. Soldier
B 21 - Jno. Grangle² : Co. F U.S. Inf.
B 22 - To the Memory of : James Kelly : Late ------ : Died at Tallahassee Fla ------³  1868 : 7th U.S. Inf.

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1.  The first numeral of the age is very weathered and could be 17 or 27.

2. This name could be Grangle, Crancle, Crangle or Grangle... or maybe something else altogether.

3. This grave stone was lightly carved and parts of it were unreadable.

NOTES:

: represents a line break in the inscription.

Most inscriptions are in all upper case letters but are otherwise reproduced here for readability.

This page was created 15 October 1999 and was last updated on 22 October 2000.

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