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 The national cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee, was established in 1867.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} The cemetery, then comprising an area of 32.62 acres, was at that time about seven miles northeast of Memphis. The site for the cemetery was chosen by a board of officers consisting of Chaplain William R. Earnshaw, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel A.W. Wills, assistant quartermaster, and Brevet Major G.W. Marshall, assistant quartermaster, The first superintendent of the national cemetery at Memphis was John F. Carl, a discharged corporal of Company A, Fourth Regiment of Artillery, who was appointed on 6 August 1867. The 1869 report of Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas, Inspector of National Cemeteries, indicates that Superintendent Carl was attentive to his duties, and that he had the cemetery in good order.
-Old records show that Memphis National Cemetery was originally established as the ''Mississippi River National Cemetery'' when the [[Union Army]] forces took control of Memphis during the [[American Civil War]]. This was a most appropriate designation in recognition of the fact that a very large number of the initial burials in the cemetery were the remains of members of the Union forces who participated in the battles and engagements during the early years of the war, which contributed to eventual control of the Mississippi River by the forces of the United States. Following the close of the war, reinterments were made in the national cemetery at Memphis from war time burial sites along the Mississippi from Hickham Kentucky to Helena Arkansas, including New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Fort Pillow.
+Old records show that Memphis National Cemetery was originally established as the ''Mississippi River National Cemetery'' when the [[Union Army]] forces took control of Memphis during the American Civil War. This was a most appropriate designation in recognition of the fact that a very large number of the initial burials in the cemetery were the remains of members of the Union forces who participated in the battles and engagements during the early years of the war, which contributed to eventual control of the Mississippi River by the forces of the United States. Following the close of the war, reinterments were made in the national cemetery at Memphis from war time burial sites along the Mississippi from Hickham Kentucky to Helena Arkansas, including New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Fort Pillow.
 In 1867, about 250 bodies of [[Union Army|Union]] soldiers, some of whom were casualties of the [[Battle of Fort Pillow]] in [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee|Lauderdale County]], were moved from a battlefield cemetery south of [[Fort Pillow, Tennessee|Fort Pillow]] to Memphis National Cemetery to be re-interred in a designated field.<ref>At Ft. Pillow, the graves had wooden markers.  As the bodies were exhumed into wooden coffins, the names, military details and dates were transcribed onto the coffins in chalk.  Before they could be reinterred, a thunderstorm washed away much of the information, accounting for the large number of "unknown" civil war markers.  {{cite book