Hayes Lowe
Gainesville Confederate Cemetery.
Mon Apr 23 22:28:34 2001


The person that you should contact is Kitty Harrison. The only address that I have for her is:

Kitty Harrison
Yankee Street
Gainesville, AL

I'm sure that you could get a phone number from directory information. She is about 79 years old (assuming that she is still living, I last heard of her on 11/8/1999).

She says that there was a hospital both during and after the war. The wounded were brought there "from Shiloh and all over, both Southern and Northern, and when they died they buried them here." They were buried in mass graves.

The late historian Buck Gore is known for his cemetery transcription and location work in Pickens County. He stated that the cemetery was once in Pickens County, but is now in Sumter County. I don't believe that Gainesville proper was ever in Pickens County, but the cemetery must have been outside of town. The cemetery is "out past the Episcopal Church", according to Tommy Stevenson, Associate Editor for the Tuscaloosa News.

There are 250 markers in the cemetery. According to Stevenson, all are marked "Unknown Confederate Soldier". However, Gore transcribed marked Confederate graves there, including Baker M. Lowe of the 36th Miss. Infantry, Co. E “Hazlehurst Fencibles”.