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Cypress Hills National Cemetery is a 18.2-acre (7.4 ha) cemetery located in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.It is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians.
A portion of the northwest area of the cemetery was designated as the Cypress Hills National Cemetery [3] in 1862 as a military burial ground for soldiers of the American Civil War. A total of 3,425 Union soldiers were buried there, in addition to 478 Confederate soldiers who died while prisoners of war. [ 4 ]
Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery, which straddles Cypress Hills, Brooklyn and Glendale, Queens in New York City. ... Burials at Cypress Hills National Cemetery (27 P)
He became ill in his old age owing to complications arising from his wounds suffered at Fredericksburg, and remained bedridden for two months before his death at the age of 76 on June 20, 1901, at his McDonough Street home in Brooklyn. In accordance with his last wishes, he was buried at Cypress Hills National Cemetery. [6]
This category contains people buried at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery, including the largest part at 625 Jamaica Avenue (1884) as well as the Union Grounds (1862) and Mount of Victory (1941) within the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
In 1973, approximately 1,700 gravediggers at 47 cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area went on strike due to disagreements over the terms of a new labor contract. The strike, which initially only affected Cypress Hills Cemetery, began on April 12 and had spread to every cemetery whose workers were represented by the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Union Local 365 by June 10.
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The second award was a result of an accidental fire in which Cooper advanced through the burning area in order to rescue a wounded man from certain death on April 26, 1865. He was buried at Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Section 2, Grave 5022, [1] in Brooklyn, New York.