Walking from the rear of Beauvoir House past the lagoon to the northwestern part of the property, visitors come to the Beauvoir Confederate Cemetery, which contains 771 graves of Confederate veterans and their wives. The graves are numbered, with the superintendent of Beauvoir maintaining records of the name and grave number of each person buried in the cemetery.
Among those buried in the cemetery is Samuel Emory Davis, the father of Jefferson Davis. Samuel Davis was born in Georgia in 1756 and served as a major in the militia of Lincoln County, Georgia during the American Revolution. He later moved to Kentucky, then briefly to Louisiana and , finally to Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He died on July 4, 1824 and was buried on Hurricane Plantation on the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. When the river changed its course, and the plantation and cemetery were abandoned, his remains were removed to Beauvoir, where the Sons of the American Revolution erected an appropriate marker over his grave.
Note: Though those buried here are mostly from Mississippi Regiments, there are veterans from all Confederate States. Though they may be listed as from a Mississippi county, check the unit designation. One requirement for residency at the Soldiers' Home was that the person be a resident of Mississippi for at least one year.