Around the base of the monument:
In Memory of 16,000 Confederate Soldiers from 13 States.
Erected by the Ladies Oakwood Memorial Association Organized May 10, 1866.
Maryland, Florida, Virginia, North Carolinia, South Carolinia, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
Oakwood Cemetery - 1865
Approximately 16,000 Confederate soldiers are buried at Oakwood cemetery in
Richmond, Virginia. Most are unknown and a large number were killed in 1862
(Gaines' Mill possibly).
