Wednesday, June 22, 2011

145th Confederate Memorial Day services in Winchester


The 145th Confederate Memorial Day services were held on June 6 in the Stonewall section of Mount Hebron Cemetery. The ceremony was conducted by the Winchester UDC and SCV. After the service there was the unveiling of the Arkansas Memorial for the 20 confederate soldiers from Arkansas buried in Mount Hebron . A delegation from the Arkansas UDC spread soil from Arkansas over each grave. All twenty of the soldiers had perished from disease.

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