Helena Confederate Cemetery, historic cemetery in Phillips County, Arkansas, US

The Helena Confederate Cemetery is a section of less than one acre in the southwest corner of Maple Hill Cemetery on Holly Street in Helena, Arkansas. It holds more than 100 marked graves, 15 of them unidentified Confederate dead and 23 of men killed at the 1863 Battle of Helena. Two memorials stand here: a 15-foot marble shaft topped by an urn with flames for General Patrick Cleburne, and a marble soldier on a 30-foot granite shaft surrounded by pyramids of cannonballs and inverted cannons.

The cemetery was established in 1891 to honor soldiers who died during the Battle of Helena on July 4, 1863, or from their wounds shortly after. General Patrick Cleburne's remains were relocated to the site in 1870 from Tennessee, and the cemetery was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The cemetery lies in the southwest corner of Maple Hill Cemetery on Holly Street, under one acre in size. Its two memorials are the Confederate Memorial, a marble soldier on a 30-foot granite shaft ringed by pyramids of cannonballs and inverted cannons, and the 15-foot marble shaft topped by a flaming urn at General Patrick Cleburne's grave. More than 100 graves are marked, 15 of them unidentified Confederate dead and 23 of men killed in the 1863 Battle of Helena.

The cemetery occupies under one acre in the southwest corner of Maple Hill Cemetery, entered from Holly Street in Helena. The two memorials, Cleburne's marble shaft and the granite Confederate Memorial with its cannonball pyramids, stand within this small section, so the whole ground can be walked in a few minutes.

The Cleburne memorial is a 15-foot marble shaft topped by an urn with flames issuing from its top, and the cemetery is described as the only known place associated with his life. The Confederate Memorial nearby is a marble soldier on a 30-foot granite shaft, ringed by pyramids of cannonballs and inverted cannons.