CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary in High Point, NC From 1863 thru 1865, over 5,000 wounded Confederate Soldiers were brought to High Point, NC by train and treated at the Barbee Hotel Wayside Hospital, which was in operation from 1863-1865. The Barbee Hotel was directly across the street from the Train depot
Pvt. Dover was mistakely listed in registers as Doonas, Doones, Deonse or Dooms by hospital staff. No records have been found on the above names in Confederate regiments or Confederate Historian Memory Rolls. He shows being admitted to the hopsital in High Point on April 10, 1865.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
It is unknown if they died of their actual wounds or of smallpox, which was in epidemic in the area at that time. About 10 years later, the bodies were all moved to the Oakwood Cemetary and marked accordingly.
Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Soldier Burial Area.
Located in Oakwood Cemetary in High Point, NC From 1863 thru 1865, over 5,000 wounded Confederate Soldiers were brought to High Point, NC by train and treated at the Barbee Hotel Wayside Hospital, which was in operation from 1863-1865. The Barbee Hotel was directly across the street from the Train depot
Pvt. Dover was mistakely listed in registers as Doonas, Doones, Deonse or Dooms by hospital staff. No records have been found on the above names in Confederate regiments or Confederate Historian Memory Rolls. He shows being admitted to the hopsital in High Point on April 10, 1865.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
It is unknown if they died of their actual wounds or of smallpox, which was in epidemic in the area at that time. About 10 years later, the bodies were all moved to the Oakwood Cemetary and marked accordingly.
Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Soldier Burial Area.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary in High Point, NC From 1863 thru 1865, over 5,000 wounded Confederate Soldiers were brought to High Point, NC by train and treated at the Barbee Hotel Wayside Hospital, which was in operation from 1863-1865. The Barbee Hotel was directly across the street from the Train depot
Pvt. Dover was mistakely listed in registers as Doonas, Doones, Deonse or Dooms by hospital staff. No records have been found on the above names in Confederate regiments or Confederate Historian Memory Rolls. He shows being admitted to the hopsital in High Point on April 10, 1865.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
It is unknown if they died of their actual wounds or of smallpox, which was in epidemic in the area at that time. About 10 years later, the bodies were all moved to the Oakwood Cemetary and marked accordingly.
Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Soldier Burial Area.
Located in Oakwood Cemetary in High Point, NC From 1863 thru 1865, over 5,000 wounded Confederate Soldiers were brought to High Point, NC by train and treated at the Barbee Hotel Wayside Hospital, which was in operation from 1863-1865. The Barbee Hotel was directly across the street from the Train depot
Pvt. Dover was mistakely listed in registers as Doonas, Doones, Deonse or Dooms by hospital staff. No records have been found on the above names in Confederate regiments or Confederate Historian Memory Rolls. He shows being admitted to the hopsital in High Point on April 10, 1865.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
It is unknown if they died of their actual wounds or of smallpox, which was in epidemic in the area at that time. About 10 years later, the bodies were all moved to the Oakwood Cemetary and marked accordingly.
Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Soldier Burial Area.
Inscription
W. G. DOOMS, MATTHEWS S.C. ARTIL.
Gravesite Details
Confederate Soldier
