Friendship Cemetery

Read the stones as a record of the town's war and what came after. After Shiloh, thousands of men who died in Columbus hospitals were buried here. William Barksdale, killed at Gettysburg, has a cenotaph here, though his remains lie in Jackson. Joshua Meador, the Disney effects animator who died in California in 1965, rests here too. The Decoration Day flowers of 1866 are the cemetery's famous moment; Sandfield Cemetery, where Columbus's Black leaders lie, has its own marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 0.3 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 6.8 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 15 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Gleed's Corner — steps away
• S. D. Lee Home — steps away
• Franklin Academy — 0.2 mi
• Columbus, Mississippi Blues — 0.2 mi