Architectural style Colonial Revival Area 4 ha Phone +1 601-445-4981 Burials Wilson Brown | NRHP Reference # 99001387 Year built 1866 Added to NRHP 22 November 1999 | |
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Location 41 Cemetery Rd., Natchez, Mississippi MPS Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS Address 41 Cemetery Rd, Natchez, MS 39120, USA Similar William Johnson House, Natchez National Historical, St Mary Basilica - Natchez, Rosalie Mansion, Stanton Hall | ||
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Natchez National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River in Adams County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 25.7 acres (10.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,154 interments.
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History
The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. Remains from battlefield and post cemeteries from around the region were brought to the cemetery to be reinterred. In 1866 a large number of soldiers who were buried in the levees of the west bank of the Mississippi River were exhumed and transferred to the National Cemetery.
Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.