Pointed-top headstone

A 1906 act furnished headstones for Confederates who died mostly in Union prison camps and lay in federal cemeteries. The size and marble matched the Union stone, but the top was pointed and the shield left off. A 1929 act extended them to private cemeteries, and from 1930 a small Southern Cross of Honor could be carved at the top.

The story that the point kept Yankees from sitting on the stones is a legend. The unit on the stone leads to Confederate service records and state pension files.