Honoring Our Heroes

Honoring Our Heroes (HM1AQ7)

Location: New Albany, IN 47150 Floyd County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 17.95', W 85° 48.295'

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An act of Congress in 1862 established fourteen national cemeteries for the interment of casualties from the Civil War. The first National Cemetery was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The New Albany National Cemetery was one of the first seven established. Originally, it was 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 was also 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 here.

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.
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HM NumberHM1AQ7
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Year Placed2006
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Date Added Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 at 5:06pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 604499 N 4239684
Decimal Degrees38.29916667, -85.80491667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 17.95', W 85° 48.295'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 17' 57.00" N, 85° 48' 17.70" W
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Area Code(s)812
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1915-1917 Ekin Ave, New Albany IN 47150, US
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