Okolona Confederate Cemetery in Okolona, Mississippi

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Get directions Okolona, Mississippi, USA

Coordinates: 33.99861, -88.75406
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During the Civil War a hospital was located at Okolona, Mississippi. The Rose Gates College Buildings were utilized as the main body for this hospital. The Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist Churches, also the Female Seminary were converted into hospital wards. Many of the wounded from the battles of Shiloh, Corinth and Brice's Cross Roads were sent to Okolona, and the following list of the dead buried here has been carefully preserved.
Roll of Confederate dead buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery, Okolona, Mississippi.

Alabama 115
Arkansas 49
Florida 1
Georgia 5
Kentucky 12
Louisiana 57
Mississippi 74
Missouri 7
Tennessee 34
Texas 49
Unknown 381
Unknown States 35
known 403