New Albany in Floyd County, Indiana — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Honoring Our Heroes

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

1. Honoring Our Heroes Marker

Inscription. An act of Congress in 1862 established fourteen national cemeteries for the interment of casualties from the Civil War. The first National Cemetery was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The New Albany National Cemetery was one of the first seven established. Originally, it was intended for soldiers from nearby Camp Noble, the converted Floyd County Fairgrounds used as a training ground for Union Soldiers during the Civil War. The cemetery was also the site for re-interment of soldiers who had been buried in temporary battleground cemeteries in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. Nearly 2,800 men, casualties of the Civil War, are buried here.

The five-and-a-half acre rectangular cemetery has a large sandstone block wall surrounding rows of engraved headstones and smaller numbered stones for the unknown soldiers. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Erected 2006.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the National Cemeteries series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1862.

Location. 38° 17.95′ N, 85° 48.295′ W. Memorial is in New Albany, Indiana, in

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Floyd County. It is on Ekin Avenue east of Thomas Street, on the left when traveling east. Marker is just to the right of the entrance to the New Albany National Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1943 Ekin Avenue, New Albany IN 47150, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southern Indiana.

It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Ohio River Valley,

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: New Albany National Cemetery (a few steps from this marker); a different marker also named New Albany National Cemetery (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Division Street School (approx. 0.4 miles away); Memories of Division (approx. 0.4 miles away); New Albany (approx. half a mile away); Site of Camp Whitcomb (approx. 0.6 miles away); Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter (approx. 0.6 miles away); Hedden's Grove Historic District (approx. 0.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in New Albany.

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

2. Honoring Our Heroes Marker

A closeup of the text

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

3. Honoring Our Heroes Marker

A closeup of the text on the lower right section

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

4. Honoring Our Heroes Marker

From a different angle

Cemetery Entrance Gate image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

5. Cemetery Entrance Gate

Color postcard image of the entrance to the National Cemetery ca. 1910 (David Barksdale collection)

National Cemetery, New Albany, Indiana image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

6. National Cemetery, New Albany, Indiana

Color postcard image of the National Cemetery, ca. 1910 (David Barksdale collection)

New Albany National Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Karl Stelly, September 8, 2013

7. New Albany National Cemetery

Entrance gate to the New Albany National Cemetery on Ekin Avenue. Marker can be seen to the right of the entrance.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on September 9, 2013, by Karl Stelly of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 743 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on September 17, 2013, by Karl Stelly of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. • Al Wolf was the editor who published this page.