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It is easy to find if you use the Tad Smith basketball coliseum as your marker. Following Shiloh the Civil War continued into Corinth, Brice's Cross Roads and into Oxford, MS. About 700 mostly confederate soldiers have a quiet, respectful resting place surrounded by a fence made of stone salvaged from a former dorm. Many people don't look up the history of Oxford and fail to consider the down was burned in 1864 nor that there was no classes in 1861 due to the enlistment into Confederate service of virtually all students. Take some time to visit this peaceful place. Then go see the Lyceum where James Meredith had trouble enrolling 101 years later as well a monument on campus marking that important moment of Civil Rights. Oxford is a great side trip for Civil War buffs seeing Shiloh or folks making trips to Memphis for its music (Stax, Sun & Graceland) or BBQ. (Bathrooms typically accessible at adjacent basketball arena or at other public buildings on campus).
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Hidden away behind a collapsing brick wall, the Confederate Cemetery on the Ole Miss campus is worth a thoughtful visit. It is next to the athletics office (I think) and the football stadium looms nearby. Though a Yankee through and through, I was moved by the starkness and simplicity of the cemetery. There is only one monument which states that most of the bodies interred there were casualties of the battle at Shiloh. A few names are listed. The vast majority died as unknowns. The 450 to 700 men, including a few federal troops, died at the hospital that was set up at the university. Having visited the Shiloh battlefield the day before, I was fully primed to appreciate this place and the ordeal that these men were put through.
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Some time ago, the headstones at this Civil War graveyard were pulled up for maintenance, and the diagram determining the location of the Confederate dead interred there was lost. All the remains is a single marker honoring the dead there. The number of bodies that lie there is unknown. It is a beautiful and simple memorial with an interesting past.
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I had a really hard time finding this site. It is up on a hill above a parking lot opposite Manning blvd on the Ole Miss campus. There is not much to see admittedly. It did evoke an eerie feeling. If you walk around the ground has the unevenness of a graveyard.
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I googled the history of the Confederate Cemetery before I went to look at it. It's always interesting to see where parts of our past come from. It's not often you see a cemetery right by a college football stadium.
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We enjoyed our visit to the cemetery. It is true, there are no individual grave stones but if you read the history, you would realize the reason. Seems a grounds keeper took up the headstones to mow and couldn't remember where they went. The monument in the middle lists all the names.
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The cemetery is a chunk of history near the football stadium and the basketball arena. It's worth a visit for anyone visiting Ole Miss. Most of the people buried there were KIA at Shiloh.
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It's not often you can feel the weight of time and history around you but here can.To paraphrase another member: "The crosses at this Civil War graveyard were pulled up by a maintenance crew and determining the location of the graves here was lost. All the remains is a single marker honoring the dead there. The number of bodies that lie there is unknown. It is a beautiful and simple memorial with an interesting past."
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We visit this and drop a shot of bourbon in honor of one of the soldiers on the tombstone. Very reverend and very tranquil.
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Unfortunately there are no markers, but there are the remains of several hundred soldiers there, on a rise overlooking Ole Miss. Moving as any military cemetery should be.