FLS Article On Barton Street Monument

The Free Lance-Star covered the ceremony dedicating the Barton Street Cemetery Monument. It can be found here: 

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/042009/04192009/460460/index_html

Additional photos can be found here: 

http://freelancestar.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=734499&CategoryID=0

There was a correction made to the article published by the Free Lance-Star. It can be found here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/042009/04252009/462012

Thank You's for the Barton Street Cemetery Monument

We would like to sincerely thank:

• The City of Fredericksburg, for allowing us, the Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp 1722, Sons of Confederate Veterans, to have the privilege of placing this historic marker across the street from the site in which these 50 known and one unknown soldiers were buried.
• Erik Nelson, City Senior Planner and Matthew Kelly, City Councilman, who have worked so diligently in helping make this project happen.
• Chief David W. Nye of the Fredericksburg Police Department for his permission for our camp rifle squad to fire at the ceremony and Officer Jim Shellhorse for his assistance with this.
• Fredericksburg Director of Public Works Doug Fawcett and Assistant Director David King for their permission to block traffic in three intersections during our ceremony and for providing the orange cones and road blocks for us to use.
• To Bryan Dyer, President, Architectural Stone Products Inc., of Fredericksburg, who has stood behind us by providing the stone monument that you see along with 16 additional head stones for unmarked Confederates at the Confederate Cemetery at a minimal cost. In most cases, he just charged the expense of shipping. By his generosity, 16 other Confederate soldiers will be remembered for generations to come.
• To Oak Hill Cemetery, in Fredericksburg, which donated the mounting of the Bronze Plaque and placement of the Monument. Thanks so much, Jack Sullivan, of Oak Hill.
• To Robert A. “Bob” Clore, who donated the inscription of the dedication date on the stone marker (at no cost) so that this momentous occasion will be remembered for years to come.
• And lastly to Colonial Concrete who sold us (at their cost) a far superior concrete for the monuments footer than we could have ever hoped for. We would also like to thank those whose financial contributions made this event possible. Without your generosity of giving this project would have never happened.

Gifts of $500.00

• Robert A. Hodge (and whose historical research first brought these 51 American soldiers to our attention to begin with), Emporia, Kansas
  
• Robert L. Dodd, DLR Contracting, FredericksburgSCV Virginia Division

Gifts of $300.00

• Mullins & Thompson Funeral Service, Fredericksburg
  
• Edward Tully, Fredericksburg
  

Gifts of $150.00 to $200.00

• Dr. Mark and Candis Wenger, Fredericksburg
  
• John B Magruder Chapter, #258 Military Order of the Stars & Bars, Fredericksburg
  

Gifts of $100.00 to $150.00

• Captain William L. Day Camp 2091, SCV, Locust Grove, Va.
  
• College Heights Cleaners, Fredericksburg
  

Gifts of $50.00

• Fredericksburg Chapter 163, United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Wayne Craig, Hartselle, Alabama
• Rev. Beverly Tucker Lacy Camp 2141, SCV, Spotsylvania, Va.

And to those whose contributions were less than $50 we sincerely thank you as well. Collectively we made this historic event happen, as collectively 148 years ago this city gathered their sons and buried them here.

--Roy B. Perry, Jr.

Upcoming Events

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  5/1/09: Parade at 10 am in Warrenton to celebrate the 250^th anniversary of the founding of Fauquier County.
• 5/9/09: Ceremony at 10:30 AM at the Bloody Angle in Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield for recently placed monument to honor McGowan’s Brigade (South Carolina).
• 5/23/09: Ceremony in Manassas at 11:30 AM for Ron Gordon’s ancestor. Click here for more information.
• 5/23/09: Memorial Day Weekend Luminaria Ceremony at Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery.
• 5/24/09: Ceremony at Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery at 2 PM. Sponsored by UDC.
• 5/25/09: Ceremony at 2 PM for two soldiers in Masonic Cemetery in Fredericksburg.
• 5/25/09: Memorial Day march at 9 AM. New route: from Barton Street Cemetery monument to Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery.
• 6/6/09: Jefferson Davis Birthday will be celebrated in Culpeper at Methodist Church.
• 6/6/09: Jefferson Davis Birthday will be celebrated 10am at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
• 9/26/09: Warrenton Heritage Day at 10 AM in Warrenton.
• 10/10/09: Local SCV compatriot Greg Randall is having a memorial ceremony for an ancestor at the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery.

Barton Street Memorial Dedication

A ceremony to dedicate the Barton Street Monument will be held on Saturday, April 18, at 2 PM. The monument will be set in front of the old Maury School in downtown Fredericksburg, VA.

This monument is being placed to honor the 51 Confederate soldiers that were buried there in an unmarked cemetery between the years 1861 and 1862.


Above, Roy inspects the monument after its arrived in Fredericksburg.