Broken Graves Photo Show

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This photo show presents an overview of the work done at Riverside Cemetery during the year 2007. The Graves & Tombs Restoration Committee repaired and set over ten headstones at this one cemetery during this last year. At the beginning of the project, five Confederate graves were missing. The grave site of James H. Brett was located and his stone was replaced. Efforts are still underway to locate the other four missing graves. A memorial stone was placed on September 22, 2007 to honor all Confederate Veterans buried at Riverside Cemetery, and to those who died defending Marianna on September 27, 1864.

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Confederate Participant
The Battle of Marianna, Florida
September 27, 1864

Captain Walter Jacob Robinson
Company A, 11th Florida Infantry

Walter Jacob Robinson, son of Jacob Robinson & Jane Mary Lawson Robinson, was born in Georgia, 1 June 1820. Walter died 1 June 1890, in Jackson County, Florida, and is buried in the family cemetery east of River Road. Walter is listed in the 1860 census as a “Farmer and a Gent of high rank.” In 1861, he is listed as Captain of the “Chipola Rangers.” This company of infantry mustered in as Company E, 2nd Battalion, Florida Infantry, at Merritt’s Bridge, on 11 August 1862. This company became Company A, 11^th Florida Infantry, on 8 June 1864. The company was a member of Finegan’s Brigade, Mahone’s Division, A. P. Hill’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. During 1863 and 1864, Captain Robinson was in and out of several Confederate Army hospital’s with various illnesses. He was home, on sick furlough, during the Marianna Raid. Captain Robinson volunteered his services with Captain Norwood's 'Cradle to Grave" Home Guard. Captain Robinson managed to escape across the Chipola River. He resigned his commission on 18 January 1865, and it was accepted by Special order 14. [EGS DATABASE - ANCESTRY.COM - NARA FILE M251 REELS 45 & 102 - Battle of Marianna]