Histopolis Place-of-the-Day

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Friday, November 26, 2010

The Histopolis Place-of-the-Day for Friday, November 26, 2010 is the Grafton National Cemetery in Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia.

"Grafton National Cemetery is located in West Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va.
"In 1867, Maj. R. C. Bates was ordered by the War Department to locate a permanent burial site for the Union soldiers who had died in hospitals and battlefields throughout West Virginia. Bates chose the Grafton location because it was relatively level in a region noted for mountainous terrain and it was near Maple Avenue Cemetery where many war dead had already been buried. The federal government appropriated the three-acre site in 1867. The steep slope was graded into three terraces with a walkway down the center that divides the cemetery into two equal parts. The first interments were in the lower two terraces: 1,252 Union soldiers, 613 of them unknown. Six-inch square markers distinguish the unknown remains. Approximately half the original interments came from Clarksburg, W.Va. Other remains were brought to the national cemetery from Wheeling, Rich Mountain and Fayette County.
"In 1903, Thornesberry Baily Brown was reinterred at Grafton National Cemetery. Brown was rumored to be the first Union casualty of the Civil War, having been killed May 22, 1861, when he refused a Confederate sentry’s order to halt and shot the sentry in the ear. The sentry responded by shooting Brown through the heart. The Brown monument is a marble obelisk that was erected by the GAR, Reno Post No. 7, and dedicated on April 28, 1904.
"Grafton National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982."
Source: Cemeteries - Grafton National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials

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November 2010

Day	Place
1	Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside County, California
2	Quincy National Cemetery, Quincy, Quincy Township, Adams County, Illinois
3	Fort Custer National Cemetery, Ross Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
4	Finns Point National Cemetery, Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey
5	Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell Precinct, Lincoln County, Nebraska
6	Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
7	Mound City National Cemetery, Mound City Precinct, Pulaski County, Illinois
8	West Virginia National Cemetery, Taylor County, West Virginia
9	Lebanon National Cemetery, Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky
10	Rock Island National Cemetery, Moline Township, Rock Island County, Illinois
11	Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Big Rock Township, Pulaski County, Arkansas
12	San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, Merced County, California
13	Marion National Cemetery, Marion, Center Township, Grant County, Indiana
14	Port Hudson National Cemetery, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
15	Fort Mitchell National Cemetery, Russell County, Alabama
16	Mill Springs National Cemetery, Pulaski County, Kentucky
17	Springfield National Cemetery, Springfield, Springfield Township, Greene County, Missouri
18	Saint Augustine National Cemetery, Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Florida
19	Confederate Cemetery, Alton, Alton Township, Madison County, Illinois
20	Staunton National Cemetery, Staunton, Staunton City, Virginia
21	Soldiers' Lot, Woodland Cemetery, Mound City, Mound City Township, Linn County, Kansas
22	Soldiers' Lot, Baxter Springs Cemetery, Spring Valley Township, Cherokee County, Kansas
23	Puerto Rico National Cemetery, Bayamón, Hato Tejas Barrio, Bayamón Municipio, Puerto Rico
24	Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles County, California
25	Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
26	Grafton National Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia
27	Crown Hill Confederate Plot, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
28	Soldiers' Lot, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine
29	Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso County, Texas
30	Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia

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