your5best | HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY - Richmond Virginia - Drone Video Tour @freshishealthy | Uploaded August 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
These hundreds of acres were purchased for just $4,000 in 1846 to make-way for one of America's most historic memorial grounds.More Confederate soldiers are buried here than any other site, numbering more than 18,000. The Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, is buried here beneath a life-size statue. A monument to John Tyler, the 10th US President sits in President's Circle. He was the only President not to receive an official memorial, due to his betrayal for the Confederacy. The 5th President of the United States, James Monroe, rests in a birdcage-shaped granite sarcophagus at the center of the cemetery's President's Circle.
These hundreds of acres were purchased for just $4,000 in 1846 to make-way for one of America's most historic memorial grounds.More Confederate soldiers are buried here than any other site, numbering more than 18,000. The Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, is buried here beneath a life-size statue. A monument to John Tyler, the 10th US President sits in President's Circle. He was the only President not to receive an official memorial, due to his betrayal for the Confederacy. The 5th President of the United States, James Monroe, rests in a birdcage-shaped granite sarcophagus at the center of the cemetery's President's Circle.
