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Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia.Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 774.9 acres (313.6 ha), and has been undergoing development with the intention of servicing the interment needs of United States military veterans and their families for the next fifty years.
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War , in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [ 1 ]
Fort Moore Main Post Cemetery is a military cemetery at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) in Georgia. Over 10,000 United States Army soldiers and their dependents have been interred at the 8.38-acre facility since it was established in 1922. [1] The first recorded interment occurred on 13 December 1922.
Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. It encompasses 23.3 acres (9.4 ha), and as of the end of 2006, had 18,742 interments. It is closed to new interments, and is now maintained by the new Georgia National Cemetery.
United States Military Entrance Processing Command Fort Gillem was a United States Army Post located in Forest Park, Georgia , on the southeast edge of Atlanta in Clayton County. Founded in 1941, it was a satellite installation of nearby Fort McPherson .
Basket Creek Cemetery Lott Cemetery. Andersonville National Historic Site; Basket Creek Cemetery; Behavior Cemetery; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Before U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Kate Hendricks Thomas died of stage 4 breast cancer in 2022, she challenged Snellville, Georgia woman Qwynn Galloway-Salazar to move the needle forward in end-of ...
Fort Mitchell National Cemetery is one of the 130 United States National Cemeteries, located in Fort Mitchell, Alabama, adjacent to the state-owned and operated Fort Mitchell Park. It has interred approximately 5,000 individual since it officially opened its 280-acre (110 ha) site in 1987.