Located amid 135 acres
of green valleys, and lush rolling hills, Hollywood Cemetery is bordered by the
James River in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is the final resting place
for two American President, James Monroe and John Tyler; two Supreme Court
Justices; 22 confederate Generals, amongst them – General J. E. B. Stuart,
General George Pickett, and their families; and thousands of confederate
soldiers and residents of Richmond.
Driving through the
cemetery, one notices the architectural beauty of thousands of markers,
monuments, statues, buildings, fences and tombs. One can actually do a walking
tour of the cemetery, a driving tour, and even a virtual tour.
We stopped at Stuart’s
and Pickett’s graves. There was a bench by Pickett’s grave with a plaque
honoring Michael Shaara, the writer of the book, The Killer Angels. The bench was given to the Pickett Society by
actor, Stephen Lang, who played the role of Pickett in the movie, Gettysburg. Gettysburg was based on
Shaara’s book and it revived interest in the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil
War.
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