CSA Graves and Memorial
Crab Orchard • Lincoln County

Civil War monument which marks the graves of thirty CSA soldiers from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas, killed and left behind by retreating troops at the Battle Of Wildcat Mountan on October 21, 1861. The soldiers bodies were carried out of the wilderness and taken about thirty miles to the town of Crab Orchard where they were given an honorable burial and monument.

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