At Shadnor First Baptist Church cemetery in 
Union City there is two simple markers telling 
of 3 Unknown Union and 18 Unknown Confederate 
soldiers buried in the church cemetery. These 
soldiers were killed in the area during August, 
September and October of 1864. Church records 
are long lost and no record has been found yet 
for the exact location of these soldiers graves. 
We do know that the family who own family plots 
in Shadnor cemetery gave places for these soldiers 
to be buried. 
With the consent of church officials an area of 
the cemetery was designated for 21 Unknown Soldiers 
grave markers for these soldiers. On September 30, 
2006 SCV Camps, "Sharpburg Sharpshooters" #1729 
and "Gen. Longstreet" #1289  held a dedication 
ceremony for these 21 Unknown and 26 old and newly 
marked Confederate soldiers graves at Shadnor. 


Dedication Service
”Marking the grave of a Confederate soldier who has 
no marker or none telling of his service to his country 
is the most rewarding, the most enduring of all the 
duties of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. For over one 
hundred years people have passed the graves of these men 
not knowing their significance. Now when they pass and 
look upon them they will know they were heroes of their 
day, that they were Confederate soldiers.”
               David E. Corley VWM/SCV
 

American War Veterans Buried at Shadnor 
First Baptist Cemetery Union City, Georgia

INDIAN WARS
    





Confederate States of America
   

   

   

   
 
     

   
  
   




  


Union Army of America





WW-II
   
 
    




All but a few of these markers were researched, ordered 
and placed in the summer of 2006 by David E. Corley including 
the 3 Unknown Union and 18 Unknown Confederate. He is a member 
of GA SCV Camp 1729, and GA SAR Marquis De Lafayette Chapter and 
other Hereditary Society. Some of the others were placed by GA 
SCV Camp 1289  member David Helms, and others by the veteran’s 
descendants. Coweta, Campbell and Fayette Counties Genealogy 
Societies were the source of research.

 
© Copyright David E. Corley 2006 All Rights Reserved