Annapolis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of

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, in

Anne Arundel County, Maryland Anne Arundel County (; ), also notated as AA or A.A. County, is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 588,261, an increase of just under 10% since 2010. Its county seat is Annapolis, whi ...

. It encompasses , and as of 2020, had over 3,100 interments. It is operated and maintained by the

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History

Annapolis National Cemetery is one of the 14 national cemeteries established by

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in 1862 to accommodate the dead from the

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. The original plot of land was leased, and later purchased, from Judge Nicholas Brewer. During the

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, Annapolis was a

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recruit training center. There was also a

parole camp During the American Civil War, a parole camp was a place where Union or Confederate soldiers on parole could be kept by their own side, in a non-combat role. They could be restored to a combat role if some prisoners of war were traded to the other ...

nearby (approximately three miles from what was then the city line) where Union prisoners who had been exchanged for Confederate prisoners were held until they could be returned to their own units. The conditions in the camp were crowded and were not particularly sanitary; many soldiers wound up in one of the army field hospitals at the U.S. Naval Academy and at St. John's College in downtown Annapolis. A large number succumbed to wounds they bore when they arrived,

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, dysentery or any of a number of other diseases. Most of the original interments were men who died in the parole camp or the field hospitals. Several Confederate prisoners, and one Russian national, also died in Annapolis and are buried in the cemetery. Many soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who served during, or died in, subsequent wars – as well as some of their dependents – are also interred there. Annapolis National Cemetery was placed on the

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in 1996.

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Annapolis National Cemetery Slide Show

National Cemetery Administration

Annapolis National Cemetery

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