Richmond National Cemetery
- Richmond National Cemetery
Richmond National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located three miles (5 km) east of the city of Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia. It encompasses convert|9.7|acre|m2, and as of the end of 2005, had 9,322 internments. It is currently closed to new interments.
History
The cemetery lies inside what once were the fortification lines when the Confederate army defended Richmond during the American Civil War. The original plot of land was purchased from local resident, William Slater in 1867. Additional land purchases in 1868 and 1906 brought the cemetery to its current area.
The original interments in the cemetery were reinterments from Oakwood Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Later the cemeteries from Belle Island Confederate Prison as well as those from the battlefields of the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Battle of Seven Pines were transferred to Richmond National Cemetery. Also transferred here were the remains of Union prisoners of war who had died between July 1861 and June 1863 and who originally had been interred just outside the east cemetery wall of Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond.
Richmond National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
See also
*United States Department of Veterans Affairs
*United States National Cemetery
External links
* [http://www.cem.va.gov/ National Cemetery Administration]
* [http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/richmond.asp Richmond National Cemetery]
* [http://soldiersofshockoehill.com "The Soldiers of Shockoe Hill" -- POW Burials]
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