His actual name is William W. Blackburn , Sgt., Co G. 1st Flordia Infantry
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary 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,the Barbee Hotel, a Wayside Hosital. March 1865 it became General Hospital # 3, High Point, N.C. and was located across the street from the train station.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
He was hospitalized March 1865 and is listed in the Barbee Hosptial register as having died with no offical date, most likely March.
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 Cemetary and marked accordingly.
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His brother Robert was also a civil war casualty, buried in Ohio at MEMORIAL ID 6289453
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary 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,the Barbee Hotel, a Wayside Hosital. March 1865 it became General Hospital # 3, High Point, N.C. and was located across the street from the train station.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
He was hospitalized March 1865 and is listed in the Barbee Hosptial register as having died with no offical date, most likely March.
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 Cemetary and marked accordingly.
...
His brother Robert was also a civil war casualty, buried in Ohio at MEMORIAL ID 6289453
His actual name is William W. Blackburn , Sgt., Co G. 1st Flordia Infantry
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary 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,the Barbee Hotel, a Wayside Hosital. March 1865 it became General Hospital # 3, High Point, N.C. and was located across the street from the train station.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
He was hospitalized March 1865 and is listed in the Barbee Hosptial register as having died with no offical date, most likely March.
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 Cemetary and marked accordingly.
...
His brother Robert was also a civil war casualty, buried in Ohio at MEMORIAL ID 6289453
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Located in Oakwood Cemetary 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,the Barbee Hotel, a Wayside Hosital. March 1865 it became General Hospital # 3, High Point, N.C. and was located across the street from the train station.
Fifty of these soldiers were known to have died while at the hospital and were buried at various gravesites around the town.
He was hospitalized March 1865 and is listed in the Barbee Hosptial register as having died with no offical date, most likely March.
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 Cemetary and marked accordingly.
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His brother Robert was also a civil war casualty, buried in Ohio at MEMORIAL ID 6289453
Inscription
Sergt. w. W. Blackman , CO. G, FIRST REG. OF FLA
Gravesite Details
Confederate Soldier
