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Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic public cemetery located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1832. The cemetery contains more than 400 graves with monuments dating from the late 1700s to the present. Its memorial markers include small tablets, ledger stones, obelisks, columnar monuments and mausoleums. They include notable examples of Greek Revival, Late Victorian, and Exotic Revival funerary art.〔 and (''Accompanying photo'' )〕 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.〔 ==Notable burials and monuments== *James Chisholm (1815–1855) – Episcopal priest who died helping the community through an epidemic of yellow fever, leaving behind a historic draft memoir *James W. Cooke (1812–1869) – Naval officer in the U.S. Navy and the Confederate Navy, overseer of the construction of the ironclad ram CSS ''Albemarle'' *Archibald C. Godwin (1831–1864) – Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army who died at the Third Battle of Winchester (monument only, buried at Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia) * William H. Murdaugh – Passed Midshipman, acting master and first officer of the First Grinnell Expedition to investigate the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition *Charles Francis Nash (died 1942) – a Leading Aircraftman for the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II (the only Commonwealth war grave at the site).〔(Nash, Charles Francis ), Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record.〕 *George Pickett (1825–1875) – Major general in the Confederate States Army who led the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg (later disinterred and reburied at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia).〔Selcer, Richard F. ''"Faithfully and Forever Your Soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA.'' Gettysburg, Pa.:Farnsworth House Military Impressions, 1995, p. 54.〕 *Grace Phillips Pollard (1873–1932) – wife of Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard *John L. Porter (1813–1893) – civilian employee of the U.S. Navy and the Confederate Navy, designer of the ironclad warship, the ''CSS Virginia'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cedar Grove Cemetery (Portsmouth, Virginia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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