Marker for Thomas R. Stone at Oakwood Cemetery

THOMAS R STONE
PVT CO A 13 NC INF
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY
FEB 15 1831        JAN 20 1864

Photographed 1/27/2003

1861 - 1865

LEST WE FORGET

THE SACRIFICES AND DEVOTION OF THE
WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY

LEE CHAPTER 123
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY

Marker for William J. King at Oakwood Cemetery

WILLIAM J KING
PVT     CO K 11 SC INF
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY
1823                        1863

Photographed 1/27/2003

White marble grids marking 17,000 Confederate dead at Oakwood Cemetery

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE EXPLOSION OF C. S. LABORATORIES ON BROWN'S ISLAND -- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, MARCH 13, 1863

THOUGH THEIR HANDS WERE SMALL AND NOT HARDENED IN BATTLE THEIR SERVICE TO THE CONFEDERACY LOOMS LARGE.

MAY THIS STONE SERVE AS A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL TO THE DEDICATION AND SACRIFICE OF THESE FORGOTTEN AND UNSUNG VICTIMS.

"LET US REMEMBER THEM AS TIME AND TIDE MORE OR IN ENDLESS RHYME WHILE BUD AND BLOSSOM, HILL AND TREE REMEMBER THEM, SO SHALL WE"
                                          OLIVER REEVES

ERECTED BY VIRGINIA DIVISION,
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY

DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 15, 2001

Scores of women and children workers were burned, disfigured and killed in the explosion. Recently, the National Park Service, Cynthia MacLeod, refused to honor these Confederate women and children with a monument marker because of political correctness.