A Visit To The Mass Confederate Burial At Finn's Point National Cemetery In Pennsville, NJ
It is April 27, 2014 and this is the second episode in Michael The Researcher's Confederate History Week Series. This video was also filmed in conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. For this episode, I traveled to Finn's Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, New Jersey.
Some of you will recall a video that I posted five years ago. It was filmed at the Nassau Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey. There I stumbled upon the grave of a Confederate General. I was shocked to see a Confederate Veteran's grave in a New Jersey cemetery. Today I went to another New Jersey cemetery and this one includes 2,436 Confederate Veterans' graves. In this video I will take you inside of the Finn's Point National Cemetery to view the premises and the Confederate Memorial/Monument.
There are no tombstones for any of the Confederate Soldiers who are buried here. The Confederates were Prisoners Of War at Fort Delaware and were taken to Finn's Point after they had passed away.
Photographs of the day can be seen at this blog entry:
A Confederate Cemetery in New Jersey
In a small town in rural Southern New Jersey is Finn's Point National Cemetery, the final resting place of almost 3,000 Confederate soldiers and civilians who died while in captivity at nearby Fort Delaware.
This is a Film Essay about the grounds.
Shot and edited entirely on March 17th, 2012.
For more info on Finn's Point Cemetery and Fort Delaware,
please visit: fortdelaware.org
Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
The federal government established the first national cemeteries during and immediately after the Civil War to provide honorable final resting places for soldiers who died in defense of the Union. However, it was also responsible for the burial of Confederate soldiers who died while being held as prisoners of war (POW). In some cases Confederate POWs were buried in designated sections of what would become national cemeteries, such as Finn’s Point, NJ, and Woodlawn NY; elsewhere, grounds were created specifically solely for Confederates, as at Rock Island and Camp Chase Confederate cemeteries.
Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), oversees nine Confederate cemeteries associated with POW camps, in addition to burials strewn throughout more than two dozen national cemeteries. Three national cemeteries—all located in states that ceded from the Union—contain the graves of Confederate soldiers who died during the war but not as prisoners, and Confederate veterans who died as recently as the 1940s.
More than thirty monuments associated with Southern sacrifice are located in these national and Confederate cemeteries. Some, erected by the federal government in the first half of the twentieth century, function as “group” grave markers; other memorial monuments were erected by Confederate heritage groups.
Federal policies that led to the acquisition, marking and care of these Confederate burial places reflect a spirit of national healing that was fueled, in part, by the common experience of the Spanish-American War (1898-99). Government stewardship of Confederate burials and cemeteries began in earnest at the end of the nineteenth century with the reburial of Confederate remains scattered throughout Arlington National Cemetery into a single section, with each grave marked by a new headstone designed with a pointed or peaked top. New legislation enacted early in the twentieth century established the Commission for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, which from 1906 to 1916 operated to document all burials of Confederate POWs in states that remained loyal to the Union and marked the graves with the “Arlington-style” headstone. The passage of time between the war’s end and the commission’s charter resulted in the loss of information about many burials, so a group memorial was erected at some cemeteries. Several sites are marked by monumental obelisk memorials, such as those at cemeteries in Alton, IL, and Point Lookout, MD. Legislation passed in 1914 and 1929 authorized the government to furnish headstones for Confederate graves in all national cemeteries and in “city, town, and village cemeteries.”
In 1973, eighty-two national cemeteries and thirty-two soldiers’ lots—including Confederate sites—were transferred from the U.S. Army to what became NCA. NCA also took responsibility for providing “government headstones or markers at the expense of the United States for the unmarked graves of…Soldiers of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War (38 USC § 2306)” who are buried worldwide. Ceremonial activities associated with recognizing the Confederacy is very limited; for example, the use of Confederate flags in memorial programs are confined to NCA cemeteries where Confederates are interred.
The Confederate legacy can be a contentious subject, and renewed interest in memorialization continues to challenge NCA with its limited authority to provide federal burial benefits for those who served the Confederacy in the Civil War.
This presentation is based on an ongoing study initiated by NCA and undertaken by Cultural Resource Associates Inc. of eighteen NCA cemeteries that contain significant numbers of Confederate interments and monuments. NCA is slated to publish the study, and will be installing interpretive wayside signage at all its Confederate sites to tell the varied stories of these places. Today NCA manages more than 131 national cemeteries and thirty-three soldiers’ lots.
A Confederate Monument Stands In NJ
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL
From Charlottesville, VA, to Durham, NC, to Baltimore, activists and city officials are demanding the removal of monuments to Confederate generals and those who fought for the Southern side during the Civil War.
But there is a little-known Confederate monument in, of all places, New Jersey.
In Finns Point Cemetery in Salem County, an 85-foot obelisk pays tribute to more than 2,000 Confederates who died while prisoners of war, being held in camps on islands in the Delaware River.
In a far corner of the cemetery are other markers to former enemies of the United States: the graves of 13 German soldiers captured during World War II who died while being held at Fort Dix.
New Jersey Civil War Monument Vandalized
A cry for help in the restoration project of a Civil War Monument erected in 1915 by veterans of the Civil War in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The statue was vandalized just before Christmas 2011. The community is rallying together to capture the vandals and raise money to restore this in honor of those who fought for our freedoms in that great conflict 150 years ago.
This video with additional information can be viewed at 12thnjvolunteerscok.org
National guard militia museum of New Jersey
music: from YouTube audio library.
The National Guard militia Museum Xzibit artifacts from free Civil War to the present.
Beyond the grave-famous people burried in Morristown NJ
This video is shot, edited and produced by Patrick Kirksey and Andrew Chin
Voice over by Nick M.
This video shows off the Famous burred in Morristown NJ
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We found the most interesting people who are burried in Morristown and made a video!
Civil War monument moved
The union soldier who has stood guard over a Union County intersection, and the nearby historic cemetery that holds the graves of 17 Civil War soldiers, was lifted from his perch today.
This Day in Jersey: Jan. 8, 2016 - Pennsylvania Line Mutiny ends, NJ apologizes for slavery
On Jan. 8, the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny ended, and NJ became the first northern state to officially apologize for slavery.
New Jersey Man Finds Letter Written By Civil War Soldier
The letter is emotional, but does it have any value? CBS2's Christine Sloan reports.
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New Jersey liberates portion of Delaware
Finns Point is an area of New Jersey located where the Delaware River meets the Delaware Bay. Because of an unfavorable survey of the border, (the infamous 12-mile circle) this created some pockets of Delaware soil along our beloved South Jersey Shoreline. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize this is OUR LAND.
Our GREAT Garden State has tried appealing this border dispute nicely in front of the US Supreme Court THREE times. We are through with being nice. F*** Delaware and F*** their apostrophes!!! #FreeFinnsPt
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Hidden Cemeteries of Wash. Co. - Confederate Soldiers
Ken Bilderback and Janis Collins discuss the lives of four Confederate Civil War veterans who moved here during and after the war.
Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery Civil War Re-enactment
In celebration of Black History Month the Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery hosted a Civil War Re-enactment. Produced by Avery Federico and Stephen Gauthier
Civil War Resources - Inside the Delaware Public Archives 13
Visit to learn more about Delaware in the Civil War. To learn more about the Civil War holdings of the Delaware Public Archives, please surf to:
Inside the Delaware Public Archives with Tom Summers is a series of short videos showing items of interest in--and about--the Delaware Public Archives. With an introduction by Stephen Marz, Director of the Delaware Public Archives.
Honor the Confederate Flag
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Desecrated Union USCT Soldier Tombstone At The Mount Peace Cemetery
This is very shocking. I found a destroyed tombstone that belongs to a Union Soldier ... and this was found on Memorial Day no less. It is for a Civil War Veteran named Isaac Dincle (I pronounced it as Dingle - it was getting dark and I could not see it that well ... once I watched the video I saw it was Dincle). He was a Private in the Company C 7 Regiment of the U.S. Col'd Infantry. It is absolutely atrocious to see this Veteran's tombstone in this condition. As you can see, there is an entire group of smashed tombstones. Really horrible.
Every year I visit this Cemetery on Memorial Day/Decoration Day so I can honor and pay tribute to the Veterans who are buried here. This is a Historic Black Cemetery and dozens of Civil War Union Soldiers' graves are on this land.
Keywords: African-American Colored Troops
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Recorded on June 27, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Grave Of Confederate General Roger Pryor (Without Commentary)
Here is a close-up of the grave of Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828 - 1919), a Brigadier General for the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War. Filmed at the Nassau Cemetery in Princeton, NJ on March 18, 2009. Very nice.
Keywords: War Between The States War Of Northern Aggression Rebellion
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Investigating Fort Mott Lealon(Lee)
I was investigating while making journal videos of myself at Fort Mott/Fort Delaware where TAPS was nearby and picked up a evp in one of them,this one was filmed in Finn's Point Cemetary within Fort Mott
New Jersey in the Civil War
Join Alex Andrioli as she explains the impact that New Jersey had on the Northern war effort. Watch now to discover the role that New Jersey industry played during the war and learn the names of several prominent New Jersey residents who served during the Civil War, including George B. McClellan and Philip Kearny.
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