An act of Congress in 1862 established fourteen national cemeteries for the interment of casualties from the Civil War, with the first National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and New Albany National Cemetery among the first seven established. Originally intended for soldiers from nearby Camp Noble, the converted Floyd County Fairgrounds used as a training ground for Union soldiers during the Civil War, the cemetery also became the site for re-interment of soldiers who had been buried in temporary battleground cemeteries in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. Nearly 2,800 men, casualties of the Civil War, are buried there. The five-and-a-half acre rectangular cemetery has a large sandstone block wall surrounding rows of engraved headstones and smaller numbered stones for the unknown soldiers. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Photo: Karl Stelly

Photo: Karl Stelly

Photo: Karl Stelly

Photo: Karl Stelly

Photo: Karl Stelly

Photo: Karl Stelly

New Albany, Indiana · USA