Confederate Cemetery

This cemetery is located within part of a 40-acre grant of land given to the city of San Antonio by the King of Spain. The property was later subdivided into twenty-nine separate cemeteries by City Aldermen, and this area was designated as City Cemetery Number Four. This section became known as the Confederate Cemetery after its purchase in 1885 by the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 1, United Confederate Veterans. The earliest documented burial in this plot, that of Charles Hutcheson, dates to 1855 and was already in place at the time of the Camp's purchase. Prominent Confederate veterans interred here include John Salmon "Rip" Ford, the pioneer Texas political leader and newspaper editor famous for his service as a Texas Ranger; George Wythe Baylor, a political and military leader; and Hamilton P. Bee, Confederate General and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. There are over 900 marked burials in the Confederate Cemetery, including those of Civil War veterans, their dependents, and later generations of descendants. Also interred here are veterans of World War I and World War II.

Confederate Cemetery is a historical marker in San Antonio, Bexar County, dedicated in 1989. It is one of 239 historical markers documented in Bexar County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 542 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.4206, -98.4639 near San Antonio. The nearest cataloged historic site is Colonel George Wythe Baylor C.S.A. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include City Cemetery #6, Bee, Hamilton P., and Ford, John Salmon "Rip".

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5029001023. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.