hollywood cemetery, 1865

From the Richmond Examiner, 6/4/1864

FUNERAL OF LIEUTENENANT JOHNSON. – The funeral of Lieutenant Peyton Johnson, Jr., of Richmond, an officer of the Fayette Artillery, killed in the action of June 1st, took place yesterday morning from the Monumental Church, and was largely attended. The interment was made in Hollywood, that fast growing city of the dead, populated by the victims of this war.

From Scribners Monthly, July 1877

On leaving the college grounds, the attention of the visitor is naturally directed to Hollywood Cemetery by the lofty pyramidal pile of Richmond granite erected therein to the memory of the Confederate dead. This beautiful cemetery is situated at the western extremity of the city, overlooking the lower rapids of the James River. Here lies President Monroe, under the plainest of iron cenotaphs; and here the great Virginia cavalry officer, Jeb Stuart, with hundreds of his fellow-officers and thousands of Confederate soldiers.

"After the war closed the condition of the Confederate graves in Hollywood cemetery was so deplorable that a general call was extended to all ex-Confederate soldiers in Richmond to volunteer to put them in condition. At the time appointed great numbers assembled at the Cemetery for the purpose, including very many old cadets." - Thomas Hughes, 1904