Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery for soldiers of the Confederate States located on the eastern side of Fayetteville in Washington County, Arkansas. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, the cemetery consists of about 3.5 acres.

Many of the soldiers buried at Confederate Cemetery fell in the Battle of Pea Ridge in March of 1862 or at the Battle of Prairie Grove just nine months later. Brigadier General William Yarnell Slack, who died on March 20, 1862, from wounds received at Pea Ridge is among the soldiers who now rest here.

Others fell in the Battle of Fayetteville or numerous other smaller engagements fought throughout the region. Many, however, died from sickness and disease during the brutal winters of 1861 and 1862.

Their graves originally dotted the landscape of Northwest Arkansas, but in 1873 the Southern Memorial Association of Washington County established the beautiful cemetery and exhumed fallen soldiers from throughout the region and brought them here for final burial. The effort coincided roughly with a similar effort to move Union dead in the region to the Fayetteville National Cemetery by the US Government.

The rock wall surrounding the historic burial ground was completed in 1888 of native stone. The tall Confederate monument on the grounds was erected in 1897 and

forms a centerpiece of the cemetery.

The Cemetery is privately owned and maintained by the Southern Memorial Association and is open daily from dawn until dusk.