From the
Richmond
Dispatch,
8/20/1861
, p. 2
Graves
for the Soldiers at
Hollywood
. – The Hollywood Cemetery Company generously gave a section for the burial of
our soldiers dying in
Richmond
and its vicinity. Nearly a hundred graves now mark the spot. The additional
labor imposed upon the small force at the Cemetery by the digging of the graves
in connection with their regular duty, is very heavy, and should not go without
compensation to the company or themselves, while most of the undertakers receive
the exorbitant sum of twenty dollars for a very plain coffin and the use of a
hearse in the burial of every soldier. More than a fourth of this sum might in
every case have been saved to the Confederacy, or given to the grave-digger. We
are glad to learn that some of our citizens, who have control of a part of the
Hospitals in the city, have made a more equitable contract, which abates six
dollars from the undertaker’s price above named; and we hope the proper
officer of the Confederacy will extend a similar arrangement to all the burials,
and thus do justice both to the Government and the cemetery company, by giving a
part of the sum thus saved to the latter, if desired.
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