St. John’s Cemetery

In St. John’s Cemetery are many graves of Confederate soldiers who were killed during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of CSA Lieutenant General John Bell Hood in 1864.
When General Patrick Cleburne passed the cemetery, he mentioned that it would be a privilege to be buried in such a beautiful spot - a place that reminded him much of his homeland of Ireland. Just three days later, Cleburne would be killed at the Second Battle of Franklin and would be buried in this very cemetery. He would be exhumed in 1870 and his remains would be moved to his home town of Helena in Arkansas.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Michael Noirot – BattlefieldPortraits.com