The bodies
of two members of Maj. Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's
1st Batt., Louisiana Infantry laid for 118 years
in unmarked graves near the end of the unfinished
Confederate railroad, just south of Centreville,
Va. These two men were the first soldiers executed
by the Army of Northern Virginia. The remains were
exhumed and reinterred at St. John's Episcopal Church
in 1979. A granite headstone now marks their resting
place.
Source: Thomas,
Michael R. "Confederate Firing Squad at Centreville:
First Military Executions in the Army of Northern
Virginia" Northern Virginia Heritage, V. 2,
No. 2, June 1980.
