Cedar Hill Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)

After the American Civil War, a portion of Cedar Hill Cemetery was set aside for the burial of Confederate soldiers who died of sickness or wounds.[3] This burial site was designated Soldiers' Rest and contains the graves of some 5,000 Confederate soldiers, with 1,600 identified.[3]

• John Stevens Bowen (1830 – 1863), Confederate major general during the American Civil War.[4]
• Walker Brooke (1813 – 1869), U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1852 to 1853).[5]
• Beverly Francis Carradine (1848 – 1931), noted author and Methodist minister.[6]
• Thomas C. Catchings (1847 – 1927), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1885 to 1901).[7]
• Nicholas Daniel Coleman (1800 – 1874), U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1829 to 1831).[8]
• James William Collier (1872 – 1933), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1909 to 1933).[9]
• Caroline Russell Compton (1907 − 1987), noted Mississippi artist.[10]
• Douglas the camel was a domesticated camel used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.[11]
• Isham Warren Garrott (1816 – 1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War.[12]
• Martin Edward Green (1815 – 1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War.[12]
• Patrick Stevens Henry (1861 – 1933), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1901 to 1903).[13]
• Elza Jeffords (1826 – 1885), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1883 to 1885).[14]
• William Augustus Lake (1808 – 1861), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1855 to 1857).[15]
• Alexander Keith McClung (1811 – 1855), lieutenant colonel in 1st Mississippi Regiment during the Mexican–American War, and U.S. chargé d'affaires to Bolivia (1849 to 1851).[16]
• Buddie Newman (1921 – 2002), Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives[17]