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 Bryan Grimes

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Bryan Grimes Famous memorial

Birth
Grimesland, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
Death
14 Aug 1880 (aged 51)
Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Grimesland, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
Plot
Plot 11a
Memorial ID
8955 View Source

Major General, CSA. Gen. Grimes led a distinguished career in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the last Major General. appointed in the Confederate Army, and he led the last Confederate attack at Appomattox on the morning of April 9, 1865, before the surrender. He was murdered from ambush by a hired assassin named William Parker. Grimes has an elaborate monument in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, near Chocowinity, North Carolina, but he is not buried there. He is actually buried in the family cemetery on his plantation of "Grimesland," about five miles northwest of the Trinity cemetery. The Grimes family cemetery is back in the woods behind the plantation house, and all of this land is private property. Both the Trinity Cemetery and "Grimesland" are located on North Carolina. Highway 33.

Major General, CSA. Gen. Grimes led a distinguished career in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the last Major General. appointed in the Confederate Army, and he led the last Confederate attack at Appomattox on the morning of April 9, 1865, before the surrender. He was murdered from ambush by a hired assassin named William Parker. Grimes has an elaborate monument in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, near Chocowinity, North Carolina, but he is not buried there. He is actually buried in the family cemetery on his plantation of "Grimesland," about five miles northwest of the Trinity cemetery. The Grimes family cemetery is back in the woods behind the plantation house, and all of this land is private property. Both the Trinity Cemetery and "Grimesland" are located on North Carolina. Highway 33.


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: 18 Mar 2000
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8955
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8955/bryan-grimes: accessed ), memorial page for Bryan Grimes (2 Nov 1828–14 Aug 1880), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8955, citing Grimesland Cemetery, Grimesland, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.