• The following cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Civil War Era National Cemeteries Multiple Property Submission...
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    American Civil War in an attempt to put together a formal network of military cemeteries. It started as the Jefferson Barracks Military Post Cemetery in 1826...
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    50,000 interments. The cemetery was established in 1863, by an order from Major General George Henry Thomas after the Civil War Battles of Chattanooga...
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    original interments in the cemetery were men who died in nearby Union hospitals during the occupation of the area early in the Civil War, mainly in 1861, following...
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    73 national cemeteries. Most of the cemeteries were located near former battlefields or what were once war time camps. Fort Leavenworth National cemetery...
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    the war, several makeshift battlefield cemeteries had their remains moved to Lexington. In 1863, the lot was officially designated a National Cemetery, and...
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    American Civil War, the cemetery was officially designated as a National Cemetery for Union burials. Remains of Union troops from other cemeteries around...
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    end of 2005. Camp Butler National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. During the Civil War, Camp Butler was the second...
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    Troops". The cemetery was created in 1863 as a place to bury Union soldiers who died while serving in and around Camp Nelson during the Civil War. The first...
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    National Cemetery in 1865, and remains from nearby Civil War battlefield cemeteries were transferred and reinterred there. Florence National Cemetery...
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