United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery

United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
	File:US S&A Home National Cemetery.jpg Snow-covered headstones at the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in February 2006
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Details
Established	July 1861
Location	21 Harewood Rd NW, Washington, D.C. 20011
Country	United States
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Type	United States National Cemetery
Owned by	U.S. Department of the Army
Find a Grave	United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
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Footnotes

United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located next to the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. It is one of only two national cemeteries administered by the Department of the Army, the other being Arlington National Cemetery. The national cemetery is adjacent to the historic Rock Creek Cemetery and to the Soldiers' Home.

Background

Template:Expand-section Immediately after the Battle of Bull Run, the Commissioners of the United States Military Asylum offered six acres of land at the north end of their grounds as a burial ground for soldiers and officers,^[2] which was sold to them by George Washington Riggs when the asylum was established.^[5]

The only people presently eligible for burial at the cemetery are residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.^[2]

The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 14,000 veterans, starting with those that fought in the Civil War.^[2]

Thomas Boyne (1849–1896), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
Benjamin Brown (1859–1910), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
John Denny (1846–1901), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
Henry Jackson Hunt (1819–1889), Union Army chief of artillery, and artillery general of The Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War
John C. Kelton (1828–1893), Adjutant Brigadier General of the U.S. Army from 1889 to 1892
John A. Logan (1826–1886), Union Army major general in the American Civil War, 1884 Republican vice presidential nominee, Illinois senator (1871–77 & 1879–86) and Illinois representative (1859–62 & 1867–71)
David S. Stanley (1828–1902), Union Army major general in the American Civil War and Medal of Honor recipient
Agnes von Kurowsky (1892–1984), an American nurse during World War I who was the basis for the character "Catherine Barkley" in A Farewell to Arms

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