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==History== | ==History== | ||
The cemetery lies within what was once Richmond's wartime [[fortification]] lines built when the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] army defended Richmond during the | The cemetery lies within what was once Richmond's wartime [[fortification]] lines built when the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] army defended Richmond during the American Civil War. The cemetery was established by the [[United States Congress]]ional legislation in 1866 but the original plot of land was not formally purchased from local resident William Slater until 1867. Additional land purchases in 1868 and 1906 brought the cemetery to its current size. | ||
The original burials in the cemetery were re-interments from [[Oakwood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Oakwood Cemetery]] and [[Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Hollywood Cemetery]] in Richmond. Those re-interments were primarily of Federal Union soldiers who perished from the effects of wounds while [[prisoners of war]] in Richmond area military hospitals. Federal dead from the [[prisoner of war]] cemetery at [[Belle Island Prison Camp]] in the [[James River]] were also re-interred here. Some of the dead intended for the [[Seven Pines National Cemetery]] and [[Cold Harbor National Cemetery]] were transferred to Richmond when those smaller burial grounds quickly reached their capacities from post-war burials and reburials of the dead from the [[battle of Seven Pines]] (also known as [[Fair Oaks, Henrico County, Virginia|Fair Oaks]]) and the [[battle of Cold Harbor]]. | The original burials in the cemetery were re-interments from [[Oakwood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Oakwood Cemetery]] and [[Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)|Hollywood Cemetery]] in Richmond. Those re-interments were primarily of Federal Union soldiers who perished from the effects of wounds while [[prisoners of war]] in Richmond area military hospitals. Federal dead from the [[prisoner of war]] cemetery at [[Belle Island Prison Camp]] in the [[James River]] were also re-interred here. Some of the dead intended for the [[Seven Pines National Cemetery]] and [[Cold Harbor National Cemetery]] were transferred to Richmond when those smaller burial grounds quickly reached their capacities from post-war burials and reburials of the dead from the [[battle of Seven Pines]] (also known as [[Fair Oaks, Henrico County, Virginia|Fair Oaks]]) and the [[battle of Cold Harbor]]. | ||