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== History == | == History == | ||
The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] soldiers who died in the | The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] soldiers who died in the Civil War. Remains from battlefield and post cemeteries from around the region were brought to the cemetery to be reinterred. In 1866 a large number of soldiers who were buried in the [[levees]] of the west bank of the Mississippi River were exhumed and transferred to the National Cemetery. | ||
Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1999. | Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1999. | ||