Details for Confederate Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5029001023

Data

Marker Number 1023
Atlas Number 5029001023
Marker Title Confederate Cemetery
Index Entry Confederate Cemetery
Address
City San Antonio
County Bexar
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 552004
UTM Northing 3254649
Subject Codes cemetery; military topics
Marker Year 1989
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Inset into Cemetery #4 off of E. commerce, Paso Hondo & News Braunfels Streets, San Antonio
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 27" x 42"
Marker Text This cemetery is located within part of a 40-acre grant of land given to the city of San Antonio by the King of Spain. The property was later subdivided into twenty-nine separate cemeteries by City Aldermen, and this area was designated as City Cemetery Number Four. This section became known as the Confederate Cemetery after its purchase in 1885 by the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 1, United Confederate Veterans. The earliest documented burial in this plot, that of Charles Hutcheson, dates to 1855 and was already in place at the time of the Camp's purchase. Prominent Confederate veterans interred here include John Salmon "Rip" Ford, the pioneer Texas political leader and newspaper editor famous for his service as a Texas Ranger; George Wythe Baylor, a political and military leader; and Hamilton P. Bee, Confederate General and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. There are over 900 marked burials in the Confederate Cemetery, including those of Civil War veterans, their dependents, and later generations of descendants. Also interred here are veterans of World War I and World War II.

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