This cultural resource study is the result of a project by the National Cemetery Administration’s History Program to assemble primary historic information about a thematic group of NCA properties: cemeteries and memorials that exclusively or partially contain Confederate burials. While Civil War-era national cemeteries were created to bury Union dead, the U.S. Government was also responsible for Confederate dead, most of whom were associated with prisoner-of-war camps. This publication examines nine all-Confederate cemeteries and nine national cemeteries containing the greatest number of Confederate graves.
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