The Hebrew Confederate cemetery on Shockoe Hill in Richmond, Virginia.

The Hebrew Confederate cemetery on Shockoe Hill in Richmond, Virginia, is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The cemetery is maintained by Congregation Beth Ahabah.
Ironically, the cemetery resulted from anti-Semitism:  When Confederate military cemeteries refused to allow the burial of Jewish soldiers killed in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Wilderness in their cemeteries, the bodies of these Jewish soldiers were then buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Va., in five rows, six bodies in a row, in a self-contained area within the cemetery.
Shortly after the war, the Hebrew Ladies Memorial Association took over care of the graves, erecting grave markers, holding memorial services and erecting an ornamental iron fence depicting muskets, crossed swords and sabers – with a flat Confederate soldier’s cap adorning the top of the fence posts.
In the 1930s, when care of the graves was handed over to the Hebrew Cemetery Company, the decaying tombstones were removed and replaced with a bronze plaque listing the names of the soldiers affixed to a large granite stone.
Not all the local Jewish Confederate soldiers are buried in this military area of the Hebrew Cemetery. Many were buried in their family plots.

The inscriptions reads: To the glory of God and in memory of the Hebrew Confederate soldiers resting in this hallowed spot.

The inscription on the military cemetery plaque reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE HEBREW CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS RESTING IN THIS HALLOWED SPOT

ERECTED BY HEBREW LADIES MEMORIAL ASSOC. RICHMOND, VA. ORGANIZED 1866.

LIST OF BURIALS
• M. Levy, Mississippi, killed May 31, 1862.
• J. Rosenberg, Ga.
• Henry Adler, 46th Va.
• E.J. Sampson, 4th Texas, killed June 27th, 1862.
• G. Wolfe, N.C. I. Hessberg, Caroline co.
Unknown soldier
• Henry Gersberg, Salem, Va., killed June 2, 1864.
• T. Foltz, 16th Miss. I. Cohen, Hampton (S.C.) Legion
• Sam Bear, Ga.
• S. Bachrach, Lynchburg, Va.
• Jonathan Sheuer, La.
• J. Frank, Ga.
• Henry Cohen, S.C. killed June 29, 1864
• Capt. Jacob A. Cohen, Co. A, 10th La., killed at 2nd Manassas, August 30, 1862, age, 33 years
• M. Aaron, N.C.
• A. Lehman, S.C.
• Julius Zark, 7th Louisiana
• A. Heyman, Georgia
• Lieut. W.M. Wolf, Hagood’s S.C. Brigade, died May 9,1864
• Lieut. L.S. Lipman, 5th Louisiana, died May 9, 1863
• Erected by his brothers to the memory of Isaac Seldner, of the 6th Virg. Inf. Reg., born December 23, 1837, killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3rd, 1863. None knew him but to love him.
• S. Weiss, Ga.H. Jacobs, S.C.
• E.B. Miller, died April 6, 1864.
• Corpl. G. Eiseman, 12th Miss.
• M. Bachrach, Lynchburg, Va.
• S. Oury, 16th Miss.; died June 10, 1861.
• A. Robinson, 15th Ga., died Jan. 26, 1863.

Soldiers killed in battle and buried elsewhere in the cemetery are Gustavus Kann, 16th Mississippi; Henry Smith, Richmond, Otey Battery; Marx Myers, Richmond Grays; Isaac J. Levy, Richmond Blues, and Captain M. Marcus, 15th Georgia, killed October 13, 1864.