Hope Landing Civil War Union Cemetery
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Add PhotosThis was no ordinary cemetery; it was a Union Army hospital burial ground. A sandstone marker originally placed here - but now located at the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park's Chatham Manor headquarters - marked the area where at least 22 men of the 107th NY Volunteer Infantry were laid to rest early in 1863. All had died of disease at a Union Army hospital at Hope Landing on the west bank of Aquia Creek. (Today Hope Landing is called Hope Springs Marina.) I suspect that at least a few of the first got sick as a result of the futile and infamous "Mud March" of January 1863.
The Hope Landing/Hope Farm hospital cemetery description you're presently reading exists to facilitate the efforts of anyone trying to locate the final resting place of these young men; researchers who are tracing these men to their death at the hospital and burial here at Hope Landing/Hope Farm still aren't quite where they need to be. The story of these men doesn't end here. There's one more place to go, and that's the National Cemetery in Fredericksburg. After the war the remains of the 22 (or 23, records vary) soldiers were moved to the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. The Find A Grave numbers listed here will help researchers take that final step.
The men were buried in 1863 at what was called "Hope Farm" which the landing served. The farm and landing were located south of the present-day railroad and railroad bridge across the creek. (In the 1860s the railroad stopped at Aquia Landing, several miles to the south; it was there that the Union Army had a major supply depot, second in importance as a field depot only to the depot at City Point later in the war.)
Sometime after the war the men were exhumed and reburied at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Several gravestones were located in the early 1970s on the west/south bank of the creek between the creek and Hope Springs Road going towards the modern Hope Springs Marina. The stones had apparently been discarded after the bodies were removed. In the 1970s the inscription on only one was both visible and legible: that of Pvt Calvin L. Burlingham. His epitaph, "On a Furlough, to where All is Peace," is poignant and beautiful enough to serve all the men who died here... and for that matter, every soldier who died during the entire war.
The names of 23 men, and most (but not all) of their corresponding Find A Grave numbers, are listed here. The number given refers to the original interment at Hope Landing. The other is their memorial page showing their locations at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. The men are:
Ackerly, John R. (26398680); Betson, Silas H.(26398739); Brener, J. (16966356); Burlingham, Pvt Calvin L. (25960745 at FNC, for more information go to 148056050); Burt, L. (17062694); Compton, George (26398754); Cone, G. S. (no Find a Grave number listed as of 6/21/2015); Cooper, W. L. (26469377); Cummings, Daniel (26400752 and 16966368); Cutler, George Wm. (26398790); DeWitt, Anderson (no FaG number found); Fuller, Pvt James (26398704); Knickerbocker, Pvt Lewis (24665263); Lalor, Pvt John (26398665); Lovell, Pvt James W (26399568); McCullough, Pvt James (16680778); Merandeville, D (not found on FaG as of Aug. 6 2015); Paddoch, Hiram (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Parks, Pvt Wm (26400760); Rasco, Henry H (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Richardson, Clark (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Shaw, Edwin W (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Watson, Pvt Alpheus D.(26398778 and 16966385). Sources: from Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park. Special thanks to Noel Harrison and Eric Mink! More sources are listed on the FaG sites, thanks to the efforts of FaG contributors D. K. Railsbeck B and Tony Cossean.
It's possible that some of the men, and perhaps others unknown to us, are still buried here at Hope Landing, since not all have been located at the National Cemetery.
A word about Aquia Creek: this is a tidal creek that flows into the Potomac a few miles downstream. It is about a half-mile wide at the point where Hope Landing was located. The creek was a center of activity in the early years of the war. The Union Army had its main supply depot at Aquia Creek Landing, where the Potomac and Aquia meet, but the entire Creek bustled with encampments and activity, Union and Confederate, in 1861-63. Among these were the first uses of floating mines ("torpedoes") in the war, and several engagements between the guns of the Union's Potomac Flotilla and Confederate gun positions on shore near Aquia Creek Landing.
This was no ordinary cemetery; it was a Union Army hospital burial ground. A sandstone marker originally placed here - but now located at the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park's Chatham Manor headquarters - marked the area where at least 22 men of the 107th NY Volunteer Infantry were laid to rest early in 1863. All had died of disease at a Union Army hospital at Hope Landing on the west bank of Aquia Creek. (Today Hope Landing is called Hope Springs Marina.) I suspect that at least a few of the first got sick as a result of the futile and infamous "Mud March" of January 1863.
The Hope Landing/Hope Farm hospital cemetery description you're presently reading exists to facilitate the efforts of anyone trying to locate the final resting place of these young men; researchers who are tracing these men to their death at the hospital and burial here at Hope Landing/Hope Farm still aren't quite where they need to be. The story of these men doesn't end here. There's one more place to go, and that's the National Cemetery in Fredericksburg. After the war the remains of the 22 (or 23, records vary) soldiers were moved to the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. The Find A Grave numbers listed here will help researchers take that final step.
The men were buried in 1863 at what was called "Hope Farm" which the landing served. The farm and landing were located south of the present-day railroad and railroad bridge across the creek. (In the 1860s the railroad stopped at Aquia Landing, several miles to the south; it was there that the Union Army had a major supply depot, second in importance as a field depot only to the depot at City Point later in the war.)
Sometime after the war the men were exhumed and reburied at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Several gravestones were located in the early 1970s on the west/south bank of the creek between the creek and Hope Springs Road going towards the modern Hope Springs Marina. The stones had apparently been discarded after the bodies were removed. In the 1970s the inscription on only one was both visible and legible: that of Pvt Calvin L. Burlingham. His epitaph, "On a Furlough, to where All is Peace," is poignant and beautiful enough to serve all the men who died here... and for that matter, every soldier who died during the entire war.
The names of 23 men, and most (but not all) of their corresponding Find A Grave numbers, are listed here. The number given refers to the original interment at Hope Landing. The other is their memorial page showing their locations at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. The men are:
Ackerly, John R. (26398680); Betson, Silas H.(26398739); Brener, J. (16966356); Burlingham, Pvt Calvin L. (25960745 at FNC, for more information go to 148056050); Burt, L. (17062694); Compton, George (26398754); Cone, G. S. (no Find a Grave number listed as of 6/21/2015); Cooper, W. L. (26469377); Cummings, Daniel (26400752 and 16966368); Cutler, George Wm. (26398790); DeWitt, Anderson (no FaG number found); Fuller, Pvt James (26398704); Knickerbocker, Pvt Lewis (24665263); Lalor, Pvt John (26398665); Lovell, Pvt James W (26399568); McCullough, Pvt James (16680778); Merandeville, D (not found on FaG as of Aug. 6 2015); Paddoch, Hiram (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Parks, Pvt Wm (26400760); Rasco, Henry H (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Richardson, Clark (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Shaw, Edwin W (not found on FaG a/o Aug 6 2015); Watson, Pvt Alpheus D.(26398778 and 16966385). Sources: from Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park. Special thanks to Noel Harrison and Eric Mink! More sources are listed on the FaG sites, thanks to the efforts of FaG contributors D. K. Railsbeck B and Tony Cossean.
It's possible that some of the men, and perhaps others unknown to us, are still buried here at Hope Landing, since not all have been located at the National Cemetery.
A word about Aquia Creek: this is a tidal creek that flows into the Potomac a few miles downstream. It is about a half-mile wide at the point where Hope Landing was located. The creek was a center of activity in the early years of the war. The Union Army had its main supply depot at Aquia Creek Landing, where the Potomac and Aquia meet, but the entire Creek bustled with encampments and activity, Union and Confederate, in 1861-63. Among these were the first uses of floating mines ("torpedoes") in the war, and several engagements between the guns of the Union's Potomac Flotilla and Confederate gun positions on shore near Aquia Creek Landing.
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- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2582494
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