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During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains ...
The Battle of Chusto-Talasah, also known as Bird Creek, Caving Banks, and High Shoal, was fought December 9, 1861, in what is now Tulsa County, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) during the American Civil War. It was the second of three battles in the Trail of Blood on Ice campaign for the control of Indian Territory during the American Civil War.
Jacksonville: The Gallant Pelham Statue, Jacksonville City Cemetery (1905) by UDC, John H. Forney Chapter [47] Mobile: Confederate Rest and Monument, Magnolia Cemetery (1874) [81] Plattville: marker in front of Mulbry Grove Cottage, the "meeting place where the Prattville Dragoons, a Civil War unit, was organized in 1861. [82]
Bradford County (1861), named for Captain Richard Bradford, who was killed in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, becoming the first Confederate officer from Florida to die during the Civil War. [203] Hendry County (1923), named for Francis Asbury Hendry, a Confederate Captain and one of the first settlers in the area. [203]
USS Mound City was a City-class ironclad gunboat built for service on the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the American Civil War. Originally commissioned as part of the Union Army 's Western Gunboat Flotilla , she remained in that service until October 1862.
More than 100 years later, the city of Tulsa honored Daniel at a memorial service last week after his remains were excavated in a mass graves investigation at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery.
Mound City National Cemetery: Jct. of IL 37 and US 51: Mound City: Pulaski County: Illinois: October 8, 1997 Quincy National Cemetery: 36th & Main Sts: Quincy: Adams County: Illinois: May 6, 2011 Rock Island National Cemetery: 0.25 mi N of southern tip of Rock Island: Moline: Rock Island County: Illinois: June 13, 1997 Crown Hill National ...
National Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee Creation of national cemeteries. 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]