Portsmouth Naval Hospital

The naval cemetery on the hospital grounds contains 840 graves of seamen and soldiers, including the remains of seamen from the U.S., Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Denmark and Japan. Its oldest known burial is a sailor who fell from the rigging of the USS CONSTITUTION (Old Ironsides). The cemetery also includes Union and Confederate graves, among them soldiers and victims of the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic, as well as 113 graves marked unknown and three recipients of the Medal of Honor. Some headstones were erected by shipmates and include the names of famous ships.

Portsmouth, Virginia · United States