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By MARY S. PRIEST
Rippafcuilock Newi Contributing Writer
On June 3, 1995, a memorial service was held at the Confederate mound in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper by United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Claude Guinn spoke on “Honoring the Patriots.”
During The War Between the States many soldiers died in Culpeper as a result of injury or disease. Most of the men buried under the Confederate mound died at the Culpeper General Hospital which was located on the hill on what is now Blue Ridge Avenue near the Madison road. Their graves were marked with wood headboards.
In 1866 the ladies of Culpeper made a list of these men, as best they could, as some names were not legible. This list was published in the Culpeper Observer on 27 May 1866 and reprinted in the Culpeper Exponent on 26 March 1921.
In 1880 the Town of Culpeper annexed 69 acres just west of the north end of town, part of which became the “Citizens Cemetery.”
Later it was named “Fairview” and the bodies or remains were
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