Oliver Newton Gallman

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Oliver Newton Gallman Veteran

Birth
South Carolina, USA
Death
25 Mar 1865 (aged 16–17)
High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.964935, Longitude: -80.0058689
Plot
Oakwood Municipal Confederate Section Row 2 #2
Memorial ID
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Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Section of the Oakwood Cemetery.

His full name and birth/death data have been submitted by Find A Grave Contributor Dora Brown (#47895331), and is entered without further confirmation.
Pvt Gallman was transferred to General Hospital #3, High Point, NC from Raleigh, NC March 19, 1865. He died in the same hospital, which was located at the Barbee Hotel, on March 29, 1865 with pneumonia.

Located in Oakwood Cemetery 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 a temporary hospital, formerly the Barbee Hotel, which was across the street from the depot.

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 Cemetery and marked accordingly.
Note: This stone is one of fifty markers in the Confederate Section of the Oakwood Cemetery.

His full name and birth/death data have been submitted by Find A Grave Contributor Dora Brown (#47895331), and is entered without further confirmation.
Pvt Gallman was transferred to General Hospital #3, High Point, NC from Raleigh, NC March 19, 1865. He died in the same hospital, which was located at the Barbee Hotel, on March 29, 1865 with pneumonia.

Located in Oakwood Cemetery 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 a temporary hospital, formerly the Barbee Hotel, which was across the street from the depot.

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 Cemetery and marked accordingly.

Inscription

O. N. GALLMAN
CO. C, FOURTH REG. OF S.C.

Gravesite Details

Confederate Soldier