Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery is an interesting place. In addition to many memorials, there are several displays and museums, including a variety of unusual items, both indoors and outdoors. The grounds are open for visitors daily from dawn to dusk. Much information is provided regarding notable residents and area history. Brochures and booklets are available at the gatehouse entrance and several other locations. Information displays are numerous.
To find the cemetery entrance, from the intersection of 5th (Memorial) Street and Taylor Street, take Taylor Street a block north, then straight into the Cemetery entrance road. Parking is usually available along the loop road, for stopping and looking at displays. Along the way, be sure to take some extra time to visit a few interesting displays. Kids of all ages might enjoy the rope swing, pond, bee houses, bird houses, railroad station house, or the giant pitcher, etc.
To get the cache coordinates, begin by walking through the archway entrance into the walled Confederate Cemetery, to the west (or northwest) of the parking coordinates.
The Taylor-Wilson Camp, #10 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, has installed grave markers and monuments in Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery, and in other locations around Lynchburg, to honor and remember Union soldiers of the American Civil War.
"Federal soldiers were buried in the Public Burying Ground of Lynchburg throughout the Civil War. In October 1866 the United States Burial Corps exhumed the remains of nearly every Union soldier interred here and transported them to Poplar Grove National Cemetery, south of Petersburg, Virginia. Poplar Grove is now managed by the National Park Service and is included on many Petersburg Civil War tourist maps and brochures."
Reference links: One from gravegarden.org and another from gravegarden.org.
Within or very near the walls of the Confederate Cemetery, there are memorial markers for 4 Union soldiers. To get the cache location, find the 4 Union soldiers' memorial markers, and use numbers from the markers, as follows.
Just inside the main entrance:
ALLEN BOBSON: Subtract 2 from the first number listed; call this A.
On the west side, almost directly west or northwest of the entrance (follow the walkway across to the end, continue to the wall, then go right a little ways):
The marker for JOHN L FURGASON has what number in the second line? Call this B.
To the north, near the northwest corner, there is a walkway through the wall around the Confederate Cemetery, to the adjacent Pest House. Just outside the walls, to the right:
The marker for NELSON BYRD HUDSON: Subtract 1401 from his birth year; call this E. Subtract 1017 from his death year, then divide by 100; call this D.
Continue past the Pest House, going west outside the stone fence, then head north and farther west to the marker for Phillip Pleasant. From the one number shown, subtract 33; call this C.
The cache can be found at:
N 37 A.BC W 079 D.E