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Civil War American National Cemeteries
In both of these cemeteries most favorable locations were secured as burial places by the gentlemen named, while every duty confided to them has been most faithfully executed.
The General Government, through the Quartermaster's Department, has made most creditable and praiseworthy efforts to gather together, with much care, the remains of the Union soldiers who fell in battle as well as those who died of wounds and disease in hospitals, in rebel prison, or by the wayside, into the "National Cemeteries, " as contemplated by the War Department. With great labor and continuous kindly care the graves have been prepared and marked, as far as practicable, with tablets, giving name, company, and regiment. These cities of the dead have been substantially enclosed, the grounds laid out and beautified, and persons appointed to protect them from being disturbed or desecrated.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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