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Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

Area
  
7 ha

Phone
  
+1 417-881-9499

NRHP Reference #
  
99001045

Year built
  
1867

Added to NRHP
  
27 August 1999

Springfield National Cemetery

Location
  
1702 E. Seminole St., Springfield, Missouri

MPS
  
Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS

Address
  
1702 E Seminole St, Springfield, MO 65804, USA

Burials
  
Orion P. Howe, Jack Williams, Harrison Collins, Hershel Eshelman, Edna Florence Evans

Similar
  
Pythian Home of Missouri, Phelps Grove Park, Landers Theatre, Gillioz Theatre, Discovery Center of Springfield

Springfield national cemetery


Springfield National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Springfield, in Greene County, Missouri. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 18.1 acres (7.3 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 14,685 interments.

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History

Established in 1867 as a place to inter only Civil War Confederate soldiers, many of whom died at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. It has since been expanded and opened to all veterans. Springfield National Cemetery now has the interred remains of soldiers from wars dating back to the Revolutionary War. The cemetery lends its name to National Avenue in Springfield, which formerly passed by the cemetery prior to the southern expansion of the city decades ago.

Notable monuments

  • A marble pillar dedicated to Union General Nathaniel Lyon in 1888.
  • A bronze sculpture dedicated to Confederate General Sterling Price in 1901.
  • The Battle of Wilson's Creek Memorial.
  • A monument dedicated to Pearl Harbor survivors, erected in 1992.
  • The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution Memorial, dedicated to the Continental Army soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War.

    • Notable interments

  • Medal of Honor recipients
  • Sergeant Harrison Collins, for action in the Civil War
  • Corporal Orion P. Howe, for action in the Civil War
  • Pharmacist’s Mate Chief Petty Officer Fred H. McGuire, for action in the Philippine-American War
  • Captain Patrick Pentzer, for action in the Civil War
  • Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Jack Williams, for action in World War II
  • Others
  • Richard Hanson Weightman (1816–1861), Delegate to the United States Congress from New Mexico Territory and Civil War Confederate officer
  • Horton Smith (1908–1963), World War II US Army Air Corps captain and professional golfer
  • Various Buffalo Soldiers

    • References

    Springfield National Cemetery Wikipedia
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