Natchez National Cemetery

Natchez National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River in Adams County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 7,154 interments.

History 
The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. Remains from battlefield and post cemeteries from around the region were brought to the cemetery to be reinterred. In 1866 a large number of soldiers who were buried in the levees of the west bank of the Mississippi River were exhumed and transferred to the National Cemetery.

Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Notable interments 
 Landsman Wilson Brown, Medal of Honor recipient for action aboard USS Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War.
 Major general Carey A. Randall, decorated officer in the Marine Corps; served as Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense from 1951-1960.

References

External links 

 National Cemetery Administration
 Natchez National Cemetery
 
 
 Natchez National Cemetery at Find a Grave

Category:Protected areas of Adams County, Mississippi
Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
Category:United States national cemeteries
Category:Natchez, Mississippi
Category:Historic American Landscapes Survey in Mississippi
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Mississippi
Category:Tourist attractions in Natchez, Mississippi