Confederate Cemetery - 1st Louisiana Infantry

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.