Mound Cemetery ready to fire at the lead of the Union Army column as it emerged from Mechanicsburg Gap in Mill Creek Mountain. The Union forces drove in and advanced to Indian Mound Cemetery where the Confederate forces made a stand and opened fire on the Federals with the twelve-pound rifle cannon and the mountain howitzer. A severe cannonade took place between the artillery of both the Union and Confederate forces for an hour. Burials Also during the American Civil War, Indian Mound Cemetery was used as a burial ground by both Union and Confederate armies. The majority of soldiers killed in the vicinity of Romney were buried in blankets in the cemetery, many whose names are unknown. Captain Richard Ashby, the brother of Confederate General Turner Ashby, was interred with all the honors of war under a giant oak tree on July 4, 1861, in Indian Mound Cemetery shortly after his death at nearby Washington Bottom Farm on July 3 from wounds received in a skirmish on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Turner Ashby attended his brother's funeral at Indian Mound Cemetery where his behavior was described in Edward A. Pollard's Southern History of the War as touching: Ashby's body was removed from the cemetery to Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, in October 1862 where it was reinterred next to Ashby's brother General Turner Ashby. Their grave is marked "The Brothers Ashby." Confederate Memorial The Confederate Memorial was erected by local ladies in honor of Hampshire County's Confederate dead and dedicated in Indian Mound Cemetery on September 26, 1867. It is considered one of the oldest, if not the first, permanent memorials to Confederate dead in the United States. Notable interments Stephen Ailes (1912–2001), United States Secretary of the Army William Armstrong (1782–1865), United States House Representative from Virginia John Rinehart Blue (1905–1965), West Virginia House Delegate from Hampshire County William C. Clayton (1831–1915), West Virginia State Senator Edna Brady Cornwell (1868–1958), First Lady of West Virginia John Jacob Cornwell (1867–1953), 15th Governor of West Virginia Marshall S. Cornwell (1871–1898), newspaper editor and publisher, poet, and author William B. Cornwell (1864–1926), railroad and timber executive John Collins Covell (1823–1887), Principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind Dr. William Henry Foote (1794–1869), Presbyterian clergyman and historian Henry Bell Gilkeson (1850–1921), West Virginia State Senator, West Virginia House of Delegates member, Principal of the West Virginia Schools