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Beaufort National Cemetery
National Archives and Records Administration
Marker detail: Cemetery entrance, 1904
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | National Cemetery Beaufort National Cemetery was established in 1863. The U.S. Army Quartermaster General's Office laid out the 22 acres in sections that radiate outward from a central plaza to form a half circle. Of the 9,226 interments here . . . — — Map (db m134421) HM |
| | (Tablet One)
The Governor of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Michael S. Dukakis, and
descendant's of the African-American Civil
War Volunteers of the 54th and 55th Infantry
Regiments and the 5th Cavalry Regiment of
Massachusetts, . . . — — Map (db m20211) HM |
| | Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m134423) HM |
| | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that . . . — — Map (db m114214) HM |
Apr. 25, 2024