Anderson County's Ft. Houston Cemetery

The community of which the Ft. Houston Cemetery is part, began when 500 acres of land was donated in 1835 for the town of Houston in Anderson County, Texas. The original Fort Houston was a stockade and blockhouse of the Republic of Texas located at a site on current Farm Road 1990 two miles west of Palestine. The fort was built on the public square of Houston, Anderson County, by Texas Rangers and completed in 1836. The town later became known as Ft. Houston after the settlement declined when Palestine became the county seat. State historical markers have been placed at the townsite and the Ft. Houston Cemetery.

LINDSEY B.
CLARK

AUG. 4, 1889
NOV. 30, 1918

MEMBER OF
THE U.S. NAVY

FATHER R. F. HEATH DEC. 11, 1824 JULY 8, 1911

MOTHER FANNIE HEATH FEB. 13, 1837 OCT. 30, 1915

1 LIEUT
T. B. SLAUGHTER

CO. A
3 BN GA SHARP
SHOOTERS
C.S.A.

San Antonio's Confederate Cemetery

Just inside the Crockett Street entrance to the Confederate Cemetery is the street sign for Robert E. Lee Walk. This cemetery is part of San Antonio's Historic City Cemeteries complex just east of the downtown area.

JOHN GREEN HALL Lieut Co. I 19 Texas Inf Confederate States Army Aug 27 1843            Jan 11 1907

HUGH FRANKLIN YOUNG Brig Gen Texas State Troops Confederate States Army Nov 3 1808            Sep 8 1889

ADELBERT R. DAUCHE Corp Co C 36 Texas Cav Confederate States Army July 28 1813            Jan 10 1868

Mill Springs Battlefield

Driving across Kentucky on a southerly route in an effort to retrace the migration of our ancestors and travel from Kentucky back through the Cumberland Gap into Virginia, we came upon a little known Civil War battlefield just outside of Nancy, Kentucky.

Zollicoffer Park is named for Confederate Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer who is said to have died on this spot. Additionally the park contains a Confederate Cemetery and memorial.



On that sunny fall day, it was hard to imagine the carnage of a Civil War battle in this beautiful, quiet place.

Camp Beauregard

In southern Graves County, Kentucky just a few miles north of the Tennessee border atop a rolling hill, Camp Beauregard Cemetery gives no hint of its tragic history. Originally a Confederate military training camp, it was only an active military installation from September of 1861 until March of 1862. During that time approximately 1,500 confederate soldiers died of diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and thyphoid fever and the camp was closed.

Area residents claim that the now private cemetery is haunted, but my cousin and I spent a lovely spring morning there several years ago and encountered no one, unearthly or otherwise.






In 1909, the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a memorial to the fallen soldiers within the cemetery. The Confederate memorial is inscribed -

In memory of the loyal men who
died here September 1861 to March 1862
for the Confederate States of America,
and were thus denied the glory of heroic
service in battle.