Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany
![]()
An act of Congress in 1862 established fourteen national cemeteries for the interment of casualties from the Civil War. The first National Cemetery was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The New Albany National Cemetery was one of the first seven established. Originally, it was intended for soldiers from nearby Camp Noble, the converted Floyd County Fairgrounds used as a training ground for Union Soldiers during the Civil War. The cemetery was also the site for re-interment of soldiers who had been buried in temporary battleground cemeteries in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. Nearly 2,800 men, casualties of the Civil War, are buried here.
The five-and-a-half acre rectangular cemetery has a large sandstone block wall surrounding rows of engraved headstones and smaller numbered stones for the unknown soldiers. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
An act of Congress in 1862 established fourteen national cemeteries for the interment of casualties from the Civil War. The first National Cemetery was at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The New Albany National Cemetery was one of the first seven established. Originally, it was intended for soldiers from nearby Camp Noble, the converted Floyd County Fairgrounds used as a training ground for Union Soldiers during the Civil War. The cemetery was also the site for re-interment of soldiers who had been buried in temporary battleground cemeteries in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. Nearly 2,800 men, casualties of the Civil War, are buried here.The five-and-a-half acre rectangular cemetery has a large sandstone block wall surrounding rows of engraved headstones and smaller numbered stones for the unknown soldiers. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.