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| name        = Danville National Cemetery
| image       = Danville (IL) National Cemetery.jpg
| imagesize   = 250
| caption     = Danville National Cemetery.
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| established = 1898
| country     = United States
| location    = [[Danville, Illinois]]
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| type        = [[United States National Cemetery|Military Veterans']]
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| size        = {{convert|63.3|acre}}
| graves      =12,000
| website     = [http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/danvilleil.asp Official]
| findagraveid= 109397
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'''Danville National Cemetery''' is a [[United States National Cemetery]] located in the city of [[Danville, Illinois|Danville]], in [[Vermilion County, Illinois]]. Administered by the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]], it encompasses {{convert|63.3|acre}}, and as of 2014, it had 12,000 interments.

==History==
[[File:Environmental view of cemetery monument from west - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Danville Branch, 1900 and 2000 East Main Street , Danville, Vermilion County, IL HABS IL-1232-8.tif|thumb|left|The Soldiers Monument.]]
In 1897, Congress established a [[Old soldiers home|soldiers home]] called the [[Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District|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 [[National Register of Historic Places]] 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]], Medal of Honor recipient for action at the [[Battle of Appomattox Courthouse]] during the Civil War.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UtGA-cP3-HsC&dq=morton+read+danville+cemetery&pg=PA74 ''American Military Cemeteries'']</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cem.va.gov/ National Cemetery Administration]
* [http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/danvilleil.asp Danville National Cemetery]
* {{HALS |survey=IL-8 |id=il0926 |title=Danville National Cemetery, 1900 East Main Street, Danville, Vermilion County, IL |photos=17 |cap=2}}
* {{GNIS|type=retired|1823605}}
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[[Category:Cemeteries in Illinois]]
[[Category:Historic American Landscapes Survey in Illinois]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Vermilion County, Illinois]]
[[Category:United States national cemeteries]]
[[Category:1898 establishments in Illinois]]