U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960
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Title
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U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960
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Creator
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
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Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Quartermaster General
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Publisher
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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Place
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Washington, DC
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Date
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2009-2011
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1862-1960
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Description
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This series contains registers of burials, records of deaths and interments, and other records concerning burials at U.S. Army posts and in national cemeteries. The series was digitized thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration and Ancestry.com. It contains information on approximately 556,000 invididuals from 157 military cemetries and 33 soldiers' lots.
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Accessed online at Ancestry.com
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Bibliographic citation
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National Cemetery Project Posts Half-Million Indexed Names of Civil War Burials. National Park Service, <https://www.nps.gov/articles/national-cemetery-project-posts-half-million-indexed-names-of-civil-war-burials.htm>