Natchez National Cemetery

Natchez National Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Postcard of Natchez National Cemetery
31°34′51″N 91°23′42″W / 31.5809702°N 91.3950859°W / 31.5809702; -91.3950859
Built	1866
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.	99001387
Added to NRHP	November 22, 1999[1]

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.

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.

Notable interments

• Landsman Wilson Brown,^[2] Medal of Honor recipient for action aboard USS Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War.
• Major General Carey A. Randall, decorated officer in the Marine Corps; served as Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense from 1951–1960.

References

External links

Media related to Natchez National Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons

• National Cemetery Administration
• Natchez National Cemetery
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. MS-2, "Natchez National Cemetery, 41 Cemetery Road, Natchez, Adams, MS"
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Natchez National Cemetery
• Natchez National Cemetery at Find a Grave