Baton Rouge National Cemetery

Baton Rouge National Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cemetery entrance, c. 1899
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Location	220 North 19th Street Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Coordinates	30°27′0″N 91°10′3″W / 30.45000°N 91.16750°W / 30.45000; -91.16750Coordinates: 30°27′0″N 91°10′3″W / 30.45000°N 91.16750°W / 30.45000; -91.16750
Area	7.7 acres (3.1 ha)
Built	1867
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP Reference #	97000768
Added to NRHP	July 09, 1997

97000768

Baton Rouge National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It encompasses 7.7 acres (3.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,459 interments.

Burials in the cemetery grounds took place as early as 1830, but the site was predominantly used during the Civil War to bury soldiers who died in Baton Rouge and the surrounding battlefields, including Plaquemine and Camden. It became an official National Cemetery in 1867, and rewards were given to anyone who reported the grave of a Union soldier, so that his remains could be reinterred in the cemetery.

In 1878 two men, Michael and Bernard Jodd, were hired to build a brick wall around the cemetery, but before it was completed, both men contracted yellow fever and died. They were interred in the cemetery and the wall was completed by local laborers.