Confederate Soldiers Memorial
To those who gave so much to their cause during the great conflict. Brave men lie beneath this ground; some in mass graves near the battlefields where they fell, some in lonely unmarked graves, and some in untended cemeteries across the south. The fifty-seven we honor here made Collierville their home. Most of these men were members of the Wigfall Gray's Company that was formed in this community and who returned after the war to become valued citizens. One is an unknown Confederate soldier who fell here during the Battle of Collierville. These men campaigned far from home against an overwhelming invading army. These southern patriots exhibited indomitable spirit and honor, surviving in defeat despite a vindictive occupying force which plundered their property and stole their suffrage. May their deeds, service, and sacrifice never be forgotten.
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Heroes who died in your tattered gray
Yours is a deathless fame
For honor never dies.
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Confederate Soldiers Buried Here
W. M. Alexander
William Allbright
Thomas Alley
Adelphus Applewhite
William Thomas Atkinson
James Thomas Biggs
Boyd Clay Bledsoe
John W. Brown
Merritt R. Brown
William J. Brown
William H. Bruton
Dr. John W. Buchanan
Wiley T. Cargill
Thomas H. Carruthers
Gus H. Crewdson
James R. Delauney
John F. Dudney, Sr.
James Baxter Fisher
James Henry Fisher
Joseph L. Granberry
Richard Robert Hall
Hezekiah Summerfield Halley
John Washington Halley
Delos A. Harrell
Madison W. Harris
J. M. Harris
John A. Holden
Frank M. Hughes
James W. V. Hughes
John P. Humphreys
William C. Jenkins, Jr.
John Thomas Joyner
James Watson Kelsey
Felix Kirk
Dr. Benjamin W. Lauderdale
J. H. Mangum
John G. McCalla
Thomas Theodore McDonald
John S. McFerrin
Melvin S. McFerrin
Thad D. Morris
Thomas Jefferson Morris
John R. Norfleet
William T. Pate
Colin P. Person, Jr.
W. T. Price
George R. Scott
Charles T. Smith
Nathan W. Smith
George W. Stamps
Albert Suggs
Thomas L. Taylor
John H. Walker
Dr. A. Webb
Joseph H. Williams
Robert N. J. Wilson
Unknown Confederate Soldier
Submitted from the Shelby County Register's Office.