Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery

Soldiers' Rest holds more dead than anyone can name. The Confederates hired a Vicksburg undertaker, J. Q. Arnold, to bury soldiers who died of wounds and illness, and he numbered each grave. His list and map vanished after the city fell in July 1863. A portion of the list turned up nearly a century later, which let the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Veterans Administration mark about 1,600 graves, while roughly 3,500 remain unidentified. It is the largest group of Confederate dead in Mississippi, within the city's Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.0 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Old Court House Museum — 1.3 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.4 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.

More markers nearby

• Burial Site of Lynching Victims — 0.2 mi
• Beulah Cemetery — 0.6 mi
• Fort Nogales — 0.9 mi
• Dr. Lemuel James Bowie — 0.9 mi