DANISH WAR GRAVE FROM 1864

Place:
Sct. Michaelis Church Graveyard.

Day of Placement:
6th of July, 1866.

Description and Background:
The grave contains the bodies of forty soldiers from 1864 and is made up of a grassy knoll supported by a boulder granite wall. Two natural stones placed upon each other wears inscriptions and a lesser stone in the grass gives the name of the only officer buried in the memorial. In every corner of the grave is placed a column which ends in a ball. These are later revisions in memory of the Reunion of 1920. Only a few of the buried soldiers died in combat since there were no actual acts of war around Fredericia in 1864. The Fortress was given up/abandoned without fight because of the defeat at Dybbøl. Typhus is likely the cause of death of most of the corpses in the grave.