Soldiers Ground in the old Umbra Magnolia Plantation grounds.

Taken from the back side while on a walk.

Best viewed large.

Soldiers Ground is a military cemetery on land appropriated from Umbra Magnolia Plantation, Charleston SC,  in 1861 for the burial of soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States (US Civil War) killed in action. It should be noted there are also northern Federal troops buried here and nearby.

The plantation at the time was also being changed into one of the first cemeteries in the US. The original plantation building stands in the center of what is now Magnolia Cemetery, C. 1850.