John and George Rose estimated that between five hundred and one thousand men were buried on their property. The number may well have been higher—the property saw twenty thousand men engage and create six thousand casualties. Both Union and Confederate dead were buried in the Wheatfield, the Rose Woods, and the lawns and garden near the house. The Union dead were removed to the new National Cemetery, but the Confederate dead remained on the farm until the 1870s when Samuel and Rufus Weaver led efforts to unearth, remove, and send to Southern cemeteries all possible Confederate dead. The following list of Confederate dead is not exhaustive but does have those who were identified by different researchers at different points in time. If you are researching ancestry, you may wish to couple this page with a similar page of those on the John Edward Plank farm. Where possible, I’ve given a link to the soldier’s Find-a-Grave page. I encourage you to visit some of these—many have fascinating stories of these men’s lives.
John F. Davis (Note: His headstone has incorrect info that the Find-a-Grave entry corrects.)
Joel Dorsey (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Dempsey Gaff (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Amos J. Gladney (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Peter Hill (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Emanuel W. Lewie (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Septimus C. Miles (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Joseph W. Stewart (not found on Find-a-Grave)
Ellwood R. Stokes Jr. (not found on Find-a-Grave)
William W. Waller (not found on Find-a-Grave)
John T. Weekly (not found on Find-a-Grave)
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