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DANISH WAR GRAVE FROM 1864

Place:
Sct. Michaelis Church Graveyard.

Day of Placement:
6th of July, 1866.

Description and Background:
The grave contains the bodies of forty soldiers from 1864 and is made up of a grassy knoll supported by a boulder granite wall. Two natural stones placed upon each other wears inscriptions and a lesser stone in the grass gives the name of the only officer buried in the memorial. In every corner of the grave is placed a column which ends in a ball. These are later revisions in memory of the Reunion of 1920. Only a few of the buried soldiers died in combat since there were no actual acts of war around Fredericia in 1864. The Fortress was given up/abandoned without fight because of the defeat at Dybbøl. Typhus is likely the cause of death of most of the corpses in the grave.

Inscription
The large stones:
In Memory of 40 Danish soldiers 1864

The Lord is the rock of my heart and my part of eternity
(PS. 73.26)

Stay strong in our Lord
(Eph. 6,10
)

The gravestone in the grass:
Chr. Christensen, Second Lieutenant of 21st Regiment fallen at Fredericia on March the 23rd 1864

Two of the columns:
9th of July
1920