Where some of the heroic dead lie in national cemeteries
These wildernesses of headstones bring vividly to mind the resting-places of our heroic dead.
There were in 1910 eighty-four national cemeteries situated in twenty-eight different States.
In them are hurried 207,075 known dead and 153,678 unknown, a total of 360,753.
Of these the cemetery at Soldiers' Home in
Washington contains 5,398 known dead, 288 unknown — a total of 5,686; the cemetery at
City Point 3,719 known dead, 1,439 unknown—a total of 5,158; the one at
Alexandria 3,401 known dead, 123 unknown—a total of 3,524.
But these lack much of being the largest.
At
Vicksburg, 16,615 lie buried; at
Nashville, 16,533; at
Arlington, Virginia, 16,254; and
Fredericksburg, Virginia, 15,273, of whom 12,785 are unknown.
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Military Cemetery |
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A sweeping view of the Alexandria ‘heroic dead’ |
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