A large Obelisk placed in the Cassville Confederate Cemetery in 1878 by the Ladies Memorial Association recounts the burial of approximately one known and 300 unknown Confederate soldiers who died of disease or wounds in the several Confederate hospitals in Cassville. However, these burials represent only a portion of the patients who died in Cassville during the war, as many bodies were later claimed by relatives and were relocated.
Outstanding Mexican-American war veteran and Army of Northern Virginia Confederate Brigadier General William T. Wofford is also buried here. General James Longstreet’s corps of General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia from May 1862 to May 1864. Wofford assumed command of fellow Georgian T.R.R. Cobb’s legion after the latter was finally wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862. Wofford died near Cassville on May 22, 1884.