AP Hill Traditional Cache
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This is a fairly easy park and grab, highlighting the statue of AP
Hill.
Confederate Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill was buried standing up. It
took three tries before he reached his final resting place. And if
all that wasn't odd enough, the search to find his first grave --
and perhaps correct the historical record -- has been led by a
group of Civil War devotees whose primary focus is illuminating not
the life of Hill, but of another Confederate general, George E.
Pickett.
A member of the Pickett Society noted that the nonprofit
society was formed in 1999 to honor Pickett but also to correct
"many subjective and historically incorrect items and pretensions."
Which brings us to the search for the location of Hill's first
grave. Hill was shot to death near Petersburg on April 2, 1865, as
his battle lines were collapsing during the last days of the war.
Then the race was on to bury him appropriately -- and before nature
took its course and ravaged his body even further.
Research by the Pickett Society indicates that the first burial came not where some
Civil War researchers believe it was, at Bellgrade Plantation, near
Huguenot and Robious roads in Chesterfield County. Pickett Society
records at the Virginia Historical Society and other research from
local historians and authors, instead indicate that Hill was buried
in an area south of the James River near Bosher's Dam, in what is
now the city of Richmond. Hill lay in that grave for two years
before he was unearthed and his remains transferred in the autumn
of 1867 to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, which was where some of
his former soldiers wanted him.
In 1891, the remains were moved again and buried under a statue erected in Hill's honor at the current intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road. A
granite marker was to be placed on the site of Hill's first grave,
and another marker will be placed in Hollywood Cemetery, the site
of his second grave. [Reprinted from April 2, 2005 Richmond
Times-Dispatch]
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