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== History == | == History == | ||
The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter | The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter 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. | ||
== Notable interments == | == Notable interments == | ||
* [[Landsman (rank)|Landsman]] [[Wilson Brown (Medal of Honor recipient)|Wilson Brown]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HWolDwAAQBAJ&dq=wilson+brown+natchez+cemetery&pg=PA188 ''The Mississippi Encyclopedia'']</ref> | * [[Landsman (rank)|Landsman]] [[Wilson Brown (Medal of Honor recipient)|Wilson Brown]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HWolDwAAQBAJ&dq=wilson+brown+natchez+cemetery&pg=PA188 ''The Mississippi Encyclopedia'']</ref> Medal of Honor recipient for action aboard [[USS Hartford (1858)|USS ''Hartford'']] at the [[Battle of Mobile Bay]] during the Civil War. | ||
* Major General [[Carey A. Randall]], decorated officer in the Marine Corps; served as Military Assistant to the [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] from 1951–1960. | * Major General [[Carey A. Randall]], decorated officer in the Marine Corps; served as Military Assistant to the [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] from 1951–1960. | ||