Pioneer Cemetery Monument, Eugene Oregon
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N 44° 02.478 W 123° 04.566
10T E 493902 N 4876462
Civil War Memorial found on the University of Oregon Campus in the Pioneer Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMCVV
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 05/17/2006
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One hundred and nineteen Civil War veterens are known to rest in this cemetery, including one Medal of Honor recipient,
Corporal Louis Renninger and at least one
Confederate soldier, by the name of Pvt. John Gibson Montgomery, 5th Tennessee Cavalry.
Approximately fifty Union soldiers lay at the base this monument.
The east facing inscription reads....
SOLDIERS REST THY WARFARE
IS OER. SLEEP THAT SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING.
DREAM OF BATTLE FIELDS NO MORE.The west reads....
I BEQUEATH THIS
MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF
ALL MY COMRADES OF THE
CIVIL WAR FROM
1861 TO
1865JOHN S COVELL
Co C 8TH Reg Mich. Vol. Inft.
More history of this section of the cemetery and the veterans who rest here can be read in the online Oregon Magazine article entitled Union Civil War Vets Honored
In Eugene Pioneer Cemetery.