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== History == | == History == | ||
The original interments in the cemetery were men who died in nearby | The original interments in the cemetery were men who died in nearby Union hospitals during the occupation of the area early in the Civil War, mainly in 1861, following the [[Battle of Port Royal]]. Battlefield casualties from around the area were also reinterred in the cemetery, including over 100 [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] soldiers. It became a National Cemetery with the National Cemetery Act by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. | ||
Of the Civil War soldiers buried here, there are: 9,000 Union soldiers (3,607 unknown,) 2,800 POWs from the camp at Millen and 1,700 African-American union soldiers. There are also 102 confederate soldiers.<ref name="Beaufort National Cemetery">{{Cite web |title=Beaufort National Cemetery |url=https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/beaufort-national-cemetery |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=American Battlefield Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> The remains of 27 [[Union Army|Union]] [[prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] were reinterred from [[Blackshear Prison]] following the war.<ref name="Beaufort National Cemetery"/> | Of the Civil War soldiers buried here, there are: 9,000 Union soldiers (3,607 unknown,) 2,800 POWs from the camp at Millen and 1,700 African-American union soldiers. There are also 102 confederate soldiers.<ref name="Beaufort National Cemetery">{{Cite web |title=Beaufort National Cemetery |url=https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/beaufort-national-cemetery |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=American Battlefield Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> The remains of 27 [[Union Army|Union]] [[prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] were reinterred from [[Blackshear Prison]] following the war.<ref name="Beaufort National Cemetery"/> | ||