Notable burials · Military
Where Civil War veterans are buried
Wikidata records 2,411 Civil War veterans as buried in 871 of the cemeteries we list, across 46 states. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, holds the most, with 301.
People recorded as having taken part in the American Civil War, or as having served in the Union or Confederate army.
2,411
Civil War veterans
871
cemeteries
46
states
1900s
the decade with the most deaths (506)
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Best documented
American Civil War veterans and where they rest
- Abraham Lincoln1809-1865President of the United States from 1861 to 1865Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL
- James A. Garfield1831-1881President of the United States in 1881Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Andrew Johnson1808-1875President of the United States from 1865 to 1869Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, TN
- Benjamin Harrison1833-1901President of the United States, 1889-1893Crown Hill National Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
- Chester A. Arthur1829-1886President of the United States from 1881 to 1885Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY
- Louisa May Alcott1832-1888American novelistSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Jefferson Davis1808-1889President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891United States Army generalCalvary Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Stonewall Jackson1824-1863General of the Confederate Army in the American Civil WarStonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, VA
- George Armstrong Custer1839-1876United States cavalry commanderWest Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
- Jesse James1847-1882American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robberMount Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, MO
- Henry Wilson1812-1875Vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, MA
- John C. Breckinridge1821-1875Vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861Lexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
- John Pemberton1831-1888American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-ColaLinwood Cemetery, Columbus, GA
- Lew Wallace1827-1905American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur'Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, IN
- David Farragut1801-1870United States Navy admiralWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- George Brinton McClellan1826-1885American soldier and politicianRiverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- Philip Sheridan1831-1888United States Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Oliver Wendell Holmes1841-1935American jurist (1841-1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Albert Bierstadt1830-1902American painterRural Cemetery, New Bedford, MA
- George Meade1815-1872United States Army general and civil engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Kit Carson1809-1868American frontiersman and Union Army generalKit Carson Memorial Cemetery, Taos, NM
- Winfield Scott1786-1866United States Army generalWest Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
- James Longstreet1821-1904Confederate Army generalAlta Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, GA
- Charles Wilkes1798-1877Naval officer and explorer from the United StatesArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Wild Bill Hickok1837-1876American folk hero and lawmanMount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, SD
- P. G. T. Beauregard1818-1893Confederate generalMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Joseph E. Johnston1807-1891Confederate generalGreen Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
- Carl Schurz1829-1906Union Army general, politicianSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Ambrose Burnside1824-1881American general and politicianSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- J. E. B. Stuart1833-1864Confederate cavalry generalHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Henry Halleck1815-1872Union Army generalGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Braxton Bragg1817-1876Confederate Army generalMagnolia Cemetery, Mobile, AL
- Joseph Hooker1814-1879American Union Army generalSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Albert Sidney Johnston1803-1862Confederate States Army officerTexas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Winfield Scott Hancock1824-1886United States Army officerMontgomery Cemetery, West Norriton, PA
- Walter Quintin Gresham1832-1895US Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edward Douglass White Jr.1845-1921Chief justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- General Nelson A. Miles1839-1925United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Commanding General of the United States ArmyArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Irvin McDowell1818-1885American generalSan Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
- Jubal Early1816-1894Lawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate States ArmySpring Hill Cemetery, West Lynchburg, VA
- Richard S. Ewell1817-1872Confederate Army generalNashville City Cemetery, Nashville, TN
- John Pope1822-1892Union United States Army generalBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Robert Anderson1805-1871Union Army generalWest Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
- Sterling Price1809-1867American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil WarBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- George Pickett1825-1875Confederate States Army generalHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Nathaniel P. Banks1816-1894American politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union ArmyGrove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, MA
- Sidney Lanier1842-1881American musician and poetGreen Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
- John Bell Hood1831-1879Confederate generalMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- George Henry Thomas1816-1870United States Army generalOakwood Cemetery, Cohoes, NY
- Oliver Otis Howard1830-1909United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army generalLakeview Cemetery, Burlington, VT
- Simon Bolivar Buckner1823-1914Confederate Army generalFrankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY
- John F. Reynolds1820-1863United States Army generalLancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- William Rosecrans1819-1898American diplomat, politician and army officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John B. Floyd1806-1863American politicianSinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, VA
- Abner Doubleday1819-1893Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John B. Gordon1832-1904American politicianOakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- John Schofield1831-1906United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Don Carlos Buell1818-1898American Union Army GeneralBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Charles Godfrey Leland1824-1903American folkloristThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Daniel Harvey Hill1821-1889Confederate States Army generalDavidson College Cemetery, Davidson, NC
- David Dixon Porter1813-1891United States Navy admiralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Chester Minor1834-1920American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcherEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Franz Sigel1824-1902Officer in the Grand Duchy of Baden; US Union Army general; civil servantWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- John Buford1826-1863Union Army GeneralWest Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
- Cyrus Ingerson Scofield1843-1921American theologian, minister and writerFlushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Albert Parsons1848-1887American socialist and anarchist newspaper editorForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Fitzhugh Lee1835-1905American politician (1835-1905); 40th governor of VirginiaHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- John C. Pemberton1814-1881Confederate Army officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- George Stoneman1822-1894Union Army General and governor of CaliforniaBentley Cemetery, Lakewood, NY
- Adolphus Greely1844-1935American army officer and polar explorerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George Crook1828-1890United States Army general during American Civil War and Indian WarsArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry A. Wise1806-1876United States Congressman and governor of VirginiaHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Edward Porter Alexander1835-1910Confederate Army generalMagnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA
- Henry Wirz1823-1865Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil WarMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Robert F. Stockton1795-1866United States Navy officerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Edward Dickinson Baker1811-1861American politician, lawyer and military leaderSan Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
- John S. Mosby1833-1916Confederate Army officerWarrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, VA
- Daniel Edgar Sickles1819-1914United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Peter Altgeld1847-1902American politicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James B. Weaver1833-1912American politicianWoodland Cemetery, Des Moines, IA
- Russell Alexander Alger1836-1907Union Army generalElmwood Cemetery, Detroit, MI
- John W. Geary1819-1873Union Army GeneralHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- Richard Taylor1826-1879Confederate generalMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Lewis Armistead1817-1863Confederate generalOld Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
- Samuel Curtis1805-1866American Union Army generalOakland Cemetery, Keokuk, IA
- William Quantrill1837-1865Confederate Army officerSaint John Cemetery, Louisville, KY
- James Shields1806-1879Irish-American politician and generalSaint Marys Cemetery, Carrollton, MO
- Earl Van Dorn1820-1863Confederate States Army generalWintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, MS
- William Joseph Hardee1815-1873Confederate Army generalLive Oak Cemetery, Selma, AL
- Adna Chaffee1842-19142nd Chief of Staff of the United States ArmyArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William W. Belknap1829-1890Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry Warner Slocum Sr.1827-1894United States general, politicianGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Benjamin Bonneville1797-1878Union Army generalBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Edwin D. Morgan1811-1883Union Army general and politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- John S. Marmaduke1833-188725th governor of Missouri (1833 to 1887)City Cemetery, Raleigh, NC
- Gouverneur Kemble Warren1830-1882General in the Union Army during the American Civil WarCommon Ground Cemetery, Newport, RI
- William Smith Clark1826-1886American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacherWest Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Henry Heth1825-1899Confederate States Army generalHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- LeRoy Pope Walker1817-1884Confederate Army generalMaple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL
- John A. Logan1826-1886American soldier and politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Zebulon Baird Vance1830-1894Confederate military officer in the American Civil WarRiverside Cemetery, Asheville, NC
- Louis Wigfall1816-1874American politicianEpiscopal Cemetery, Galveston, TX
- James Henderson Berry1841-1913American politicianBentonville Cemetery, Bentonville, AR
- Friedrich Hecker1811-1881German revolutionary and Union United States Army officerSummerfield Cemetery, Lebanon, IL
- Henry Hopkins Sibley1816-1886Confederate Army generalFredericksburg Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
- John Gibbon1827-1896Union Army GeneralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Tyler Morgan1824-1907United States politician and Confederate soldierLive Oak Cemetery, Selma, AL
- Joseph Wheeler1836-1906Confederate Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Jacob Dolson Cox1828-1900American statesman, lawyer, Union Army general, educator, author, and microbiologistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- James B. McPherson1828-1864Career officer of the United States ArmyMcPherson Cemetery, Clyde, OH
- Francis Preston Blair Jr.1821-1875Union Army general, politicianBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Fitz John Porter1822-1901American Union Army generalGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- James Buchanan Eads1820-1887American civil engineerBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Joseph Carter Abbott1825-1881American general, senatorValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Raphael Semmes1809-1877Confederate Army generalCatholic Cemetery, Mobile, AL
- John M. Palmer1817-1900Union Army general, politicianCarlinville City Cemetery, Carlinville, IL
- Samuel D. McEnery1837-1910American politicianMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross1838-1898Governor of Texas, Confederate States of America general, Texas A&M University presidentOakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX
- David Hunter1802-1886American Union general during the Civil WarPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- William C. Oates1833-1910Confederate Army officerOakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL
- John B. Magruder1807-1871Confederate Army generalEpiscopal Cemetery, Galveston, TX
- Luke Edward Wright1846-1922United States politician and diplomatForest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, TN
- Richard J. Oglesby1824-1899Union Army generalElkhart Cemetery, Williamsville, IL
- August Willich1810-1878Union Army GeneralElm Grove Cemetery, Saint Marys, OH
- Edward Clark1815-1880Governor of TexasMarshall Cemetery, Marshall, TX
- Martin R. Delany1812-1885United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writerMassies Creek Cemetery, Cedarville, OH
- Charles Francis Adams Jr.1835-1915American author and historianMount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, MA
- William N. Pendleton1809-1883Confederate Army generalStonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, VA
- William Alexander Hammond1828-1900American military physician and neurologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Gustavus Woodson Smith1821-1896Confederate Army generalCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- William Henry Jackson1843-1942American photographer and painterArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Hiram Berdan1824-1893Union Army GeneralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Marcus Reno1834-1889Union Army generalThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John C. Brown1827-1889Confederate Army generalMaplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, TN
- Francis Lubbock1815-1905Governor of Texas, 1857-1859Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- William H. Emory1811-1887Union Army generalCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Joseph F. Johnston1843-1913American politicianElmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL
- Lafayette McLaws1821-1897Confederate Army generalLaurel Grove South Cemetery, Savannah, GA
- Edwin Vose Sumner1797-1863U.S. Union Army generalOakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY
- Samuel Cooper1798-1876Adjutant and Inspector General of the armies of the Confederate StatesChrist Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
- Alfred Moore Scales1827-1892Confederate Army generalGreen Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, NC
- Charles Devens1820-1891Union Army generalMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Thomas C. Hindman1828-1868American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil WarMaple Hill Cemetery, Helena, AR
- E. O. C. Ord1818-1883United States Army officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Robert Wilson Shufeldt1850-1934American scientistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William B. Franklin1823-1903Union Army generalProspect Hill Cemetery, North York, PA
- Edmund J. Davis1827-1883Governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Wesley Merritt1836-1910Union Army generalWest Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
- John Hunt Morgan1825-1864Confederate Army generalLexington Cemetery, Lexington-Fayette, KY
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 2,411. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1860s319
- 1870s208
- 1880s294
- 1890s444
- 1900s506
- 1910s409
- 1920s179
- 1930s43
- 1940s1
- 1950s4
- 2000s1
By recorded year of death, for the 2,408 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA301
- Hollywood Cemetery · Richmond, VA56
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY51
- West Point Cemetery · West Point, NY46
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC37
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA37
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA35
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY33
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO31
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH29
- Green Mount Cemetery · Baltimore, MD25
- Mount Olivet Cemetery · Nashville, TN25
- San Francisco National Cemetery · San Francisco, CA20
- Elmwood Cemetery · Memphis, TN20
- Cave Hill Cemetery · Louisville, KY16
- Crown Hill National Cemetery · Indianapolis, IN16
- Metairie Cemetery · Metairie, LA15
- U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery · Naval Academy, MD15
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY14
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC14
- Oakland Cemetery · Atlanta, GA14
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC13
- Calvary Cemetery · Manhattan, NY13
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA13
- Lexington Cemetery · Lexington-Fayette, KY13
Top 25 of 871 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
By state
American Civil War veterans by state
- Alabama53
- Arizona3
- Arkansas34
- California78
- Colorado7
- Connecticut33
- Delaware3
- District of Columbia78
- Florida17
- Georgia80
- Idaho1
- Illinois88
- Indiana36
- Iowa29
- Kansas15
- Kentucky50
- Louisiana34
- Maine36
- Maryland61
- Massachusetts124
- Michigan34
- Minnesota19
- Mississippi31
- Missouri67
- Montana7
- Nebraska14
- New Hampshire10
- New Jersey40
- New Mexico3
- New York300
- North Carolina31
- Ohio112
- Oklahoma5
- Oregon6
- Pennsylvania142
- Rhode Island24
- South Carolina19
- South Dakota4
- Tennessee100
- Texas70
- Utah1
- Vermont14
- Virginia444
- Washington10
- West Virginia19
- Wisconsin29
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Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.