Notable burials · Military
American Civil War veterans buried in Pennsylvania
Wikidata records 142 Civil War veterans as buried in 52 of the cemeteries we list in Pennsylvania. Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia holds the most, with 35. Pennsylvania has the 3rd highest count of any state, out of 2,411 nationally.
People recorded as having taken part in the American Civil War, or as having served in the Union or Confederate army.
142
Civil War veterans
52
cemeteries
4%
of notable burials in Pennsylvania
1860s
the decade with the most deaths (33)
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Best documented
American Civil War veterans buried in Pennsylvania
- George Meade1815-1872United States Army general and civil engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Winfield Scott Hancock1824-1886United States Army officerMontgomery Cemetery, West Norriton, PA
- John F. Reynolds1820-1863United States Army generalLancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- Charles Godfrey Leland1824-1903American folkloristThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John C. Pemberton1814-1881Confederate Army officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John W. Geary1819-1873Union Army GeneralHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- William B. Franklin1823-1903Union Army generalProspect Hill Cemetery, North York, PA
- Samuel W. Crawford, Jr.1829-1892United States Army surgeon and Union generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- David McMurtrie Gregg1833-1916Union Army generalCharles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA
- Charles Van Wyck1824-1895Union Army officerMilford Cemetery, Gold Key Lake, PA
- Charles Ferguson Smith1807-1862Union Army GeneralLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- David B. Birney1825-1864Union Army GeneralThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Strong Vincent1837-1863Union Army generalErie Cemetery, Erie, PA
- Alexander Schimmelfennig1824-1865Officer of the Prussian Army, Partaker in the German Revolution 1848/1849, Union Army generalCharles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA
- John Adolphus Dahlgren1809-1870United States Navy admiralLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Frank Furness1839-1912Philadelphia architect and United States Army Medal of Honor recipientLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Charles Ellet, Jr.1810-1862American civil engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Alfred Sully1820-1879American Civil War officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Herman Haupt1817-1905Union United States Army generalWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Henry M. Hoyt1830-1892Union Army general, lawyer, judge, governorForty Fort Cemetery, Swoyersville, PA
- Jacob Zeilin1806-18807th Commandant of the Marine CorpsLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuel Kosciuszko Zook1821-1863Union Army generalMontgomery Cemetery, West Norriton, PA
- George W. Melville1841-1912American admiral and engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Patterson1792-1881Union United States Army generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John Joseph Abercrombie1798-1877Union Army generalThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- William Godshalk1817-1891American politician and Union Army soldierDoylestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Doylestown, PA
- James S. Negley1826-1901Union Army general and politicianAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Alexander Hays1819-1864Union Army generalAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- John Buchanan Robinson1846-1933Union Navy sailor and politician in PennsylvaniaAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- William High Keim1813-1862Union Army general, politicianCharles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA
- Henry H. Bingham1841-1912Union Army General and Medal of Honor recipientLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- David Hayes Agnew1818-1892American surgeonWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Hugh Boyle Ewing1826-1905Union Army GeneralSaint Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- John P. S. Gobin1837-1910Union Army generalMount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, PA
- George Cadwalader1806-1879Union Army GeneralChrist Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
- John F. Mackie1835-1910Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipientArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- Galusha Pennypacker1844-1916United States Army Medal of Honor recipientPhiladelphia National Cemetery, Elkins Park, PA
- Lafayette C. Baker1826-1868Union Army officerForest Hills Cemetery, Feasterville, PA
- William D. Porter1808-1864United States Navy officerThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John Marston1795-1885American CommodoreThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- William McCandless1834-1884Union Army officerMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Thomas Welsh1824-1863Union United States Army generalMount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, PA
- Richard Conner1843-1923United States Army Medal of Honor recipientNorth Cedar Hills Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
- Alexander Kelly1840-1907United States Army Medal of Honor recipientSaint Peter's Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
- Thomas Algeo Rowley1808-1892Union United States Army generalAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Alfred L. Pearson1838-1903Union Army general and Army Medal of Honor recipientAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- William Henry Egle1830-1901American physician, author and historian from PennsylvaniaHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- James Henry Carpenter1846-1898American Civil War, Founder of Carpenter Technology CorporationCharles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA
- James St. Clair Morton1829-1864American generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- George C. Read1788-1862United States Navy officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Francis E. Patterson1821-1862American generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry Morris Naglee1815-1886Union Army generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Richard Binder1839-1912United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipientWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Richard Coulter1827-1908American Army generalSaint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, PA
- Henry Lawrence Burnett1838-1916Union Army GeneralSlate Hill Burial Ground, Yardley, PA
- James Robert Madison Mullany1818-1887United States Navy admiralThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John Trout Greble1834-1861US soldierWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Charles Vernon Gridley1844-1898United States Navy officerLakeside Cemetery, Lawrence Park, PA
- Everett W. Anderson1839-1917United States Army Medal of Honor recipientMorris Cemetery, Phoenixville, PA
- Jacob B. Sweitzer1821-1888Union Army officerAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Charles H. T. Collis1838-1902Recipient of the Medal of HonorSoldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA
- Aaron Anderson1811-1886United States Navy Medal of Honor recipientEden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
- Emmor Cope1834-1927Major, US ArmyEvergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
- James Martinus Schoonmaker1842-1927Union Army Medal of Honor recipientHomewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
- Sylvanus William Godon1809-1879United States Navy admiralLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Ulric Dahlgren1842-1864Union Army officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry Bohlen1810-1862Union Army generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Joseph George Rosengarten1835-1921American lawyer and writerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Isaac J. Wistar1827-1905Union Army generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John Miller1839-1882American recipient of the Medal of HonorNorthwood Cemetery, Elkins Park, PA
- Sylvester Bonnaffon, Jr.1844-1922United States Army Medal of Honor recipientThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Thomas Cripps1840-1906United States Navy Medal of Honor recipientThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John Woolf Jordan1840-1921American historianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Charles Baker1809-1891United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Charles Frederick Taylor1840-1863Union Army colonelLongwood Cemetery, Kennett Square, PA
- William Reynolds1815-1879Rear admiral in the United States NavyLancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- William Densmore1843-1865United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipientNew Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry C. Warfel1844-1923Union Army Medal of Honor recipientPhilipsburg Cemetery, Philipsburg, PA
- Henry J. Madill1829-1899American generalWysox Cemetery, Towanda, PA
- John Hickman1836-1904American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientCalvary Cemetery, Altoona, PA
- John Shanes1844-1904Recipient of the Medal of HonorLantz Cemetery, Waynesburg, PA
- George A. Cobham, Jr.1825-1864Union Army GeneralOakland Cemetery, Warren, PA
- John M. Kindigdied 1869American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Archibald H. Rowand, Jr.1845-1913Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- James H. Bronson1838-1884United States Army Medal of Honor recipientChartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, PA
- Gotlieb Luty1842-1904American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientUniondale Cemetery 1, Pittsburgh, PA
- Henry Pleasants1833-1880Union United States Army generalCharles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, PA
- Alexander Elliott1831-1905Medal of Honor recipientHighwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
- James L. Carey1839-1919Medal of Honor recipientChartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, PA
- George Crawford Platt1842-1912United States Army Medal of Honor recipientHoly Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Joshua T. Owen1821-1887Welshman who became Union Army generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Edward Y. McCauley1827-1894American Navy admiralLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Elie A. F. La Vallette1790-1862United States Navy admiralLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Turner Gustavus Morehead1814-1892American generalMount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Thomas Sloan Bell1838-1862American soldierThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Dewitt Clinton Lewis1822-1899American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- James Forney1844-1921United States Marine Corps Brevet Medal recipientWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- John Lafferty1842-1903United States Navy Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- William Thompson1812-1872American soldier, born 1812Mount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Jonathan M. Foltz1810-1877United States military surgeonLancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- Werner Knauss Rhue1843-1904Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaUnion - West End Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- Edward Blumer Young1836-1878Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaUnion - West End Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- Edwin Goundie Martin1836-1893Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- DeWitt Clinton Baxter1829-1881American generalLawnview Memorial Park, Rockledge, PA
- J. Henry Denig1838-1876United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipientProspect Hill Cemetery, North York, PA
- Alexander Crawford1842-1886United States Navy Medal of Honor recipientCedar Hill Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
- John H. White1835-1912American Union soldier during Civil WarArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- Louis Wagner1838-1914American soldierIvy Hill Cemetery, Wyndmoor, PA
- Jack Skelly1841-1863Union Army soldierEvergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
- Charles C. Davis1830-1909United States Army Medal of Honor recipientHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- William Shipman1831-1894Union Navy Medal of Honor recipientHoly Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- William Graul1846-1869Union Army soldierCharles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA
- George F. McFarland1834-1891Union Army officerHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- Pinkerton R. Vaughn1841-1866United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipientLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Reigart Bolivar Lowry1826-1880American naval officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuel Mercer1799-1862United States Navy officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- George J. Pitman1839-1884Medal of Honor recipientLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Andrew Boyd Cummings1830-1863United States Navy officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Clark Henry Wells1822-1888United States Navy officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Langhorne Wister1834-1891American military officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry A. Adams1833-1878American naval officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- William Levis James1833-1903Union Army brevet brigadier generalThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Henry McIntire1835-1863Union Army lieutenant colonel (1835-1863), died of wounds sustained at the Battle of GlendaleThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Mott Hooton1838-1920United States Army generalThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- William H. Macomb1818-1872United States Navy officerThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John I. Curtin1837-1911Union Army generalUnion Cemetery, Bellefonte, PA
- Joseph Beale1814-1889American Navy surgeon generalWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- John Williams1828-1885Union Navy sailor in the American Civil WarMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Nicholas Lear1826-1902American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Thomas Lyons1838-1904United States Navy Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- William Williams1840-1893United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- James Martin1826-1918United States Marine Corps sergeant of the American Civil War, recipient of the Medal of HonorMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Robert E. Winslow1829-1893Union Army generalMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- George N. Galloway1841-1904Medal of Honor recipientMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- John Smith1826-1907Union Navy sailor in the American Civil WarMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Michael P. Small1831-1892Small, Michael P; class of 1855Prospect Hill Cemetery, North York, PA
- Sumner Paine1845-1863American Civil War officerSoldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA
- Overton Carr1811-1886American Navy officerHomewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
- George Meade1843-1897Union Army officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Adolph G. Rosengarten1838-1862American soldierLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Charles F. W. Behm1813-1882German-born merchant ship captain, served in the United States Navy during the American Civil WarLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John Ely1816-1869American Civil War generalThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
Showing the 142 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 142. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1860s33
- 1870s14
- 1880s23
- 1890s21
- 1900s24
- 1910s17
- 1920s9
- 1930s1
By recorded year of death, for the 142 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA35
- Mount Moriah Cemetery · Yeadon, PA12
- The Woodlands · Philadelphia, PA10
- Allegheny Cemetery · Bloomfield, PA8
- West Laurel Hill Cemetery · Bala Cynwyd, PA7
- Charles Evans Cemetery · Reading, PA5
- The Oaklands Cemetery · West Chester, PA5
- Harrisburg Cemetery · Harrisburg, PA4
- Prospect Hill Cemetery · North York, PA3
- Lancaster Cemetery · Lancaster, PA3
- Union - West End Cemetery · Allentown, PA2
- Arlington Cemetery · Drexel Hill, PA2
- Evergreen Cemetery · Gettysburg, PA2
- Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg · Gettysburg, PA2
- Chartiers Cemetery · Carnegie, PA2
- Montgomery Cemetery · West Norriton, PA2
- Homewood Cemetery · Wilkinsburg, PA2
- Holy Cross Cemetery · Yeadon, PA2
- Christ Church Burial Ground · Philadelphia, PA1
- Saint Peter's Cemetery · Pittsburgh, PA1
- Slate Hill Burial Ground · Yardley, PA1
- Philadelphia National Cemetery · Elkins Park, PA1
- Milford Cemetery · Gold Key Lake, PA1
- Lawnview Memorial Park · Rockledge, PA1
- Mount Bethel Cemetery · Columbia, PA1
Top 25 of 52 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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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.