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    Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana...
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    historic district on October 15, 1966. The Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery is located in Chalmette, Louisiana, six miles (10 km) southeast of...
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    Chalmette (/ʃælˈmɛt/ shal-MET) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States...
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    the Chalmette National Cemetery to commemorate the soldiers who died in the Union cause. Although military burials continued at the Chalmette National Cemetery...
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    Fazendeville, Louisiana and adjacent to Monument Cemetery (now known as the Chalmette National Cemetery), where the U.S. government had begun burying deceased...
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    The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military...
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    established a national historical park in 1907 to preserve the Chalmette Battlefield, which also includes the Chalmette National Cemetery. It features...
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  • NRHP-listed Chalmette National Cemetery, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Chalmette; NRHP-listed Freedmen's Cemetery, Chalmette (formerly...
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  • Nancy St. Louis Cemetery, Louisville Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette Girod Street Cemetery (defunct) Greenwood...
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    "Lyons Wakeman." She was buried with full military honors at Chalmette National Cemetery in New Orleans.: 50  Her letters and their record of her military...
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  • including the historic Malus-Beauregard House, the Chalmette Monument, and Chalmette National Cemetery. The nearby Mississippi River levee was not overtopped...
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    vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 are included on the National Register of Historic Places and the Louisiana African...
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    park system. Most national cemeteries are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, although a few are managed by the National Park Service and...
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  • coordinates) National Historic Sites and other National Park Service areas in Louisiana are: Cane River Creole National Historical Park Chalmette National Cemetery...
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    near the Freedmen's Cemetery in the parish, this village was razed during the 1960s as part of an expansion of the Chalmette National Battlefield in the...
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  • camps (including Camp Parapet) to Chalmette National Cemetery. Formerly enslaved people were buried in the camp‘s cemetery. After the war, the name Camp Parapet...
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    were moved from the spillway cemeteries to Chalmette National Cemetery in 1930. The total number of burials in either cemetery is unknown. The sites adjoin...
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    Camp Parapet (category Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana)
    000 Union bodies were once interred before being moved to Chalmette National Cemetery. National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson Parish...
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    site at the junction of US 60 and US 421. Chalmette: Chalmette National Cemetery in Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve contains a monument...
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    Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Park Service)
    The remains of many of the casualties were later reburied at Chalmette National Cemetery, near New Orleans. Through the remainder of the war (1862–65)...
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  • 1878(1878-09-03) (aged 53) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Buried Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, Louisiana Allegiance United States Service / branch United...
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  • New Orleans, Louisiana on August 20, 1889, and buried at the Chalmette National Cemetery two days later. Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.)....
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  • War Archive 5th Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery; U.S. National Park Service 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry; Civil War Archive Dobak, William...
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    Grande from June until it mustered out on 6 November 1865. A search of the National Park Service roster of the 29th USCI shows 2,072 soldiers. According to...
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    Units United States Colored Troops Arkansas in the American Civil War National Park Service 2020. Mark Christ, "Re: 1st Arkansas Infantry (A.D.)", Arkansas...
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    Master transferred from the Kensington, were later interred at Chalmette National Cemetery. Union naval veterans who lost fathers, brothers, and even fathers-in-law...
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    John Grimes Walker (category Burials at Arlington National Cemetery)
    in the engagements with Forts Jackson and St. Philip, as well as the Chalmette batteries during the operations which resulted in the fall of New Orleans...
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  • Smith Drive Longstreet Place Robert E. Lee Boulevard Robert E. Lee Street Chalmette: Beauregard Street Gretna: Beauregard Drive Houma: Jefferson Davis Street...
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    The Creole Queen docked at the Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery, March 5, 2016...
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    Militia where he fought against the British in the Battle of New Orleans at Chalmette, Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party, Walker was first elected...
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