Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park Cemetery

Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park Cemetery

Location:

McKee Street

Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia

38.21081, -80.94284

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2646542

Date of Visit: September 19, 2025

Granville Blevins

Co C 

45 Va Inf
CSA

Granville Blevens of Grayson county, Virginia, joined the Confederate Army with his brother, Haywood, and some fiends on 5/29/1861 at Wythevillle, Virginia. Like many others soldiers, both North and South, Granville died of sickness. He was bured here by his brother and friends on 9/7/1861, just three days before the battle. A number of other Confederates also died from sickness while camped one Patterson's farm but Granville's is the only known grave site. Most of the union fatalities were buried on the battlefield and moved after the war for burial elsewhere. - Journey's End plaque at grave site.

Granville died of fever on September 6, 1861 at Camp Gauley. His brother Haywood would rise to rank of Lieutenant.  He was captured in 1864 and sent to Ohio as a prisoner of war. 

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Granville Blevins, 45th Virginia, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 27, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Haywood Blevins, 45th Virginia, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 27, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181479556/granville-blevins: accessed September 27, 2025), memorial page for PVT Granville Blevins (1841–6 Sep 1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 181479556, citing Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park, Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Penny Harris (contributor 47430685).