NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY. Historical Information
(Not Surveyed in Davidson County Cemetery Project)
Nashville National Cemetery is located at 1420 Gallatin Road, South, Madison, Tennessee. Gates open for visitation during daylight hours. The cemetery is located about six miles north of Nashville. The 64.5-acre cemetery contains 34,461 Interments, through fiscal Year 2004.
The Nashville National Cemetery’s web site: http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/nashville.htm
Visitors to the web site will be able to obtain helpful information about visitation, notable burials and grounds regulations.
According to the information on the web site:
Most of the land for Nashville National Cemetery was acquired shortly after the
Civil War. In July, 1866, 45 acres were transferred to the United States from
Morton B. Howell, master of the Chancery Court of Nashville, in accordance with
the decree of the court. During the first few months of 1867, another 17 acres
were conveyed in the same manner. The final portion, about 1 ½ acres was
purchased by the United States in 1879 from J. Watts Judson. The original
interments were the remains of soldiers removed from temporary burial grounds
around Nashville’s general hospitals as well as the Civil War battlefields at
Franklin and Gallatin, Tennessee, and Bowling Green and Cave City, Kentucky.
There are 4,141 unknowns interred at the Nashville National Cemetery.
On the Nashville National Cemetery web site, there is a direct link to the “National Gravesite Locator.” Search may be made for burial locations of veterans and their dependents in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries and various other Department of Interior and military cemeteries.
RESEARCH REPORT. MARCH 28, 2005