| Summary: | Color print view of the Confederate Rest, Magnolia Cemetery located in Mobile, AL. Large cemetery with thousands of grave sites. A corner of this cemetery is the burial grounds of Confederate soldiers, appropriately named "Confederate Rest". The soldiers graves are marked with white markers. A statue of a figure representing a Confederate soldier stands tall in the center of "Confederate Rest" area. Postmarked March 25, 1907. Undivided back postcard.Printed on front: 'Mobile, Ala. Confederate Rest. Magnolia Cemetery.' Printed on back: 'Confederate Rest - Magnolia Cemetery. Confederate Rest is a corner in Magnolia Cemetery set apart as a burial ground for Confederate soldiers, and contains nearly a thousand graves. Many who lost their lives in conflict at Spanish Fort, at Blakely and in the Battle of Mobile Bay have a resting place here; a number of the graves have been filled since the Civil War. The tomb of Gen. Braxton Bragg is within the enclosure. Rapheal Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2355 "Mobile, Ala." Art Publishers To Their Majesties The King and Queen.'Written on front: '3/26-07, Ira C. Banta' Written on back: ' Miss Frances Head LaGrange Ky - Oldham Co.'
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