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Interpretive Marker: National Cemetery
Interpretive Marker: Wartime sketch and modern view
 
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Interpretive Marker: Artillery Supports the Supply Line
 
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(3-95) National Cemetery, 12 noon - 4 p.m., Dec 31, 1862. This hillside was an open field. With the railroad at their backs, Union artillery were randomly placed from the Chicago Board of Trade  Battery on your right, across this hillside to the Round Forest on your left, in an effort to support the infantry that was stretched along the Nashville Pike. After the battle, most of the dead were buried on the field. When the National Cemetery was established in June 1865, the Government disinterred the Union dead and reburied them here. Of the more than 6,100 Union burials, 2,562 were not identified. Confederate soldiers were not buried in this Cemetery, but were taken to their home towns, the nearest southern community, or buried in unmarked mass graves. The Cemetery is landscaped according to an 1892 plan

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