Confederate Soldiers Cemetery

Governor John Pettus chose the university for a state hospital because its thirteen buildings stood empty beside the Mississippi Central Railroad. Wounded from Shiloh filled the campus, which by one estimate treated nearly 2,000 patients in 1862-64, with about 700 deaths. The hospital records were lost when Union forces took Oxford. The dead went into what men called God's Little Acre, and a story from the 1890s says a mowing crew later pulled up the wooden markers and stacked them without recording the names. The United Daughters of the Confederacy raised an arch over the road in 1927.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 0.3 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Rowan Oak — 0.8 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• Oxford Square — 1.2 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 15 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• Ventress Hall — 0.4 mi
• Barnard Observatory — 0.5 mi
• Documenting the Blues — 0.5 mi
• "Dead House" — 0.5 mi