Danville did not have a lot of participation in the war other than the fact that the Battle of Perryville (fought Oct. 8, 1862) was fought nearby (10 miles away). The courthouse and several buildings of Centre College served as hospitals for Union forces after the battle.
On October 11, 1862, Confederate forces retreated through the town with a Union force following closely behind.
Danville was also the place of birth of Theodore O'Hara, who wrote "Bivouac of the Dead" which became a popular poem used in many cemeteries for the war's dead.
After the war, many citizens of Danville gave up their burial spots in the city's Bellevue Cemetery to form a Confederate cemetery in 1868, with 66 fallen Confederate soldiers were reinterred. This cemetery adjoins the Danville National Cemetery (1862) that was reserved for former Union soldiers.
In 2019, the Presbyterian Church of Danville voted to remove the monument from church grounds and petitioned the city to allow the monument's relocation to Bellevue cemetery.
--Old Secesh
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