Architectural style Colonial Revival Area 3 ha Phone +1 225-654-3767 | NRHP Reference # 97000768 Year built 1867 Added to NRHP 9 July 1997 | |
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Location 220 North 19th Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana MPS Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS Address 220 N 19th St, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, USA Burials Troy H. Middleton, Philemon Thomas Similar Alexandria National Cemetery, Independence Park Botanic G, One American Place, Mobile National Cemetery, LSU Hilltop Arboretum | ||
Baton Rouge National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It encompasses 7.7 acres (3.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,459 interments.
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History
Burials in the cemetery grounds took place as early as 1830, but the site was predominantly used during the Civil War to bury soldiers who died in Baton Rouge and the surrounding battlefields, including Plaquemine and Camden. It became an official National Cemetery in 1867, and rewards were given to anyone who reported the grave of a Union soldier, so that his remains could be reinterred in the cemetery.
In 1878 two men, Michael and Bernard Jodd, were hired to build a brick wall around the cemetery, but before it was completed, both men contracted yellow fever and died. They were interred in the cemetery and the wall was completed by local laborers.