The chapel at Marion

Alabama · USA · Church

The chapel was turned into a hospice during the Civil War. Those who did not survive were buried directly behind it, and the cadets have known that for a.

Marion Military Institute in Alabama was built in the early 1800s, and during the Civil War the chapel on campus was turned over to the wounded.

Those who did not survive were buried directly behind it.

Cadets have reported things there ever since.

The arrangement is what gives this entry its force. The graves are not in a cemetery somewhere else. They are behind the chapel, on the campus, and every cadet who has passed through this institution since 1865 has walked past them daily.

Alabama sent a very large proportion of its young men to that war and got a great many of them back like this. The men buried here were mostly the age of the cadets who now train on the same ground, which is not lost on anybody who goes there.

The institute is an active college.

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Hvor ligger The chapel at Marion?

The chapel at Marion ligger i Alabama, USA.