Sister Linda Chapman of the West Virginia Charleston Mission is seated quietly in this small Civil War cemetary near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, paying her respects to ten of the last soldiers to die in this war.

Nine of the graves hold the remains of soldiers of the Confederacy. One grave on the very end (to the left, not shown) is that of a Union soldier who fell here amid the last shots fired during this momenteous and tragic conflict.

this is a peaceful and sacred spot, maintained by a group of women called the Daughters of the Confederacy. The cemetary is on the north side of US 460, just west of the entrance to the Appomattox Court House Historic Park.