New Bern National Cemetery

The National Cemeteries in the U.S.A. are used for graves of war dead, graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so. There are also special state veteran cemeteries.

New Bern National Cemetery was opened in 1867. In 2005, there were in total 7,517 graves on this cemetery, mostly of Union soldiers, of which nearly 1,000 were unknown..

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons