
A vast national cemetery containing the graves of more than 17,000 Union soldiers, many of them unidentified, along with later veterans. It is a powerful physical record of Civil War loss and should be visited as a cemetery and memorial.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/national-cemetery.htm

