Coordinates: 37°46′50″N 79°26′43″W / 37.7805°N 79.4453°W / 37.7805; -79.4453
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. Formerly known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, it was renamed for legendary Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who was interred here after his death on May 10, 1863. Also buried there are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia, and Margaret Junkin Preston, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".
The plot of Jackson and his family received a sculpture of Jackson in 1895, created by sculptor Edward V. Valentine. The plot includes graves of:
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