Danville National Cemetery is a

United States National Cemetery The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress o ...

located in the city of Danville, in

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. Administered by the

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, it encompasses , and as of 2014, it had 12,000 interments.

History

In 1897, Congress established a soldiers home called the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Danville, and the next year the cemetery was established on a small plot of land nearby to inter those veterans who died while under care in the facility. In 1901 a new cemetery was plotted, and the interments were all moved to their current location. It was transferred to the National Cemetery system in 1973. Danville National Cemetery was listed on the

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in 1992.

Notable monuments

* The Soldiers Monument, by William Clark Noble, a granite base with a bronze statue of a Civil War soldier holding a musket, dedicated in 1917.

Notable interments

* Lieutenant Morton A. Read,

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recipient for action at the

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References

External links

National Cemetery Administration

Danville National Cemetery
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