Richmond National Cemetery
Richmond National Cemetery.
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| Location | Henrico County, Virginia |
| Country | United States |
| Type | United States National Cemetery |
| Size | 9.7 acres (3.9 ha) |
| No. of interments | 9,322 |
| Website | cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/richmond.asp |
| Find a Grave | Richmond National Cemetery |
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Richmond National Cemetery
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| Location | 1701 Williamsburg Rd., near Richmond, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37°30′52″N 77°23′34″W / 37.51444°N 77.39278°WCoordinates: 37°30′52″N 77°23′34″W / 37.51444°N 77.39278°W |
| Area | 9.7 acres (3.9 ha) |
| Built | 1866 |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| MPS | Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 95001183 |
| VLR # | 043-0126 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 26, 1995 |
| Designated VLR | August 28, 1995 |
Richmond National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located three miles (5 km) east of the city of Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 9.7 acres (3.9 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 9,322 interments. It is currently closed to new interments. Richmond National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The cemetery lies within what was once Richmond's wartime fortification lines built when the Confederate army defended Richmond during the American Civil War. The cemetery was established by the United States Congressional legislation in 1866 but the original plot of land was not formally purchased from local resident William Slater until 1867. Additional land purchases in 1868 and 1906 brought the cemetery to its current physical size.
The original burials in the cemetery were re-interments from Oakwood Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Those re-interments were primarily of Federal Union soldiers who perished from the effects of wounds while prisoners of war in the Richmond area military hospitals. Federal dead from the prisoner of war cemetery at Belle Island Prison Camp in the James River were also re-interred here. Some of the dead intended for the Seven Pines National Cemetery and Cold Harbor National Cemetery were transferred to Richmond when those smaller burial grounds quickly reached their initial capacities from post-war burials and reburials of the dead from the battle of Seven Pines (also known as Fair Oaks) and the battle of Cold Harbor. Also transferred to Richmond are the remains of hospitalized Union prisoners of war who had died between July 1861 and June 1863 who had originally been interred just outside the east cemetery wall of Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond. Military veterans from later eras are also buried here.
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