Mobile National Cemetery

Mobile National Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery including Mobile National Cemetery
A portion of Mobile National Cemetery.
Mobile National Cemetery is located in Alabama
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates: 30°40′27.00″N 88°3′50.11″W / 30.67417°N 88.0639194°W / 30.67417; -88.0639194Coordinates: 30°40′27.00″N 88°3′50.11″W / 30.67417°N 88.0639194°W / 30.67417; -88.0639194
Built: 1866
Governing body: National Cemetery Administration.
NRHP Reference#: 86003757[1]
Added to NRHP: 13 June 1986 [2]

Mobile National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Mobile, Alabama. It encompasses 5.2 acres (21,000 m²), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,326 interments. It is an annex to the larger Magnolia Cemetery.[3] Mobile National Cemetery is administered by Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida, and is currently closed to new interments.[4]

Contents

History

Mobile National Cemetery was established in 1865, when Union troops occupied the city of Mobile after the Battle of Mobile Bay, during the Civil War.[4] Initially, casualties of the battle were interred in a section of the city owned Magnolia Cemetery, but they quickly had a need for more space and a plot of three acres (12,000 m²) was granted to the Army by the city in 1866.[4] By 1871, the cemetery had 841 interments, mostly soldiers whose remains were moved from other nearby battlefield sites.[4]

Mobile National Cemetery was listed, along with the rest of Magnolia Cemetery, on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 June 1986.[5]

Notable monuments

Notable interments

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alabama - Mobile County". "Nationalhistoricalregister.com". http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/al/Mobile/state2.html. Retrieved 2007-11-18. 
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-11-18. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  3. ^ Sledge, John Sturdivant. Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile's Historic Cemeteries, pages 24-26. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Mobile National Cemetery". "U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs". http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/mobile.asp#hi. Retrieved 2007-11-27. 
  5. ^ "National Register of Historic Places". "National Register Information System". http://www.nr.nps.gov/iwisapi/explorer.dll?IWS_SCHEMA=NRIS1&IWS_LOGIN=1&IWS_REPORT=100000066. Retrieved 2007-11-18. [dead link]

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