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The Staunton National Cemetery was established shortly after the conclusion of the Civil War in 1866. More than 750 Union soldiers are buried here, mostly casualties from the Shenandoah Valley battles of 1862 and 1865, including Cross Keys, Port Republic, and Waynesboro. Sixty-seven Union prisoners of war also are interred in the cemetery. One of the men killed at Cross Keys on June 8, 1862, Nicolae Dunca, was a Romanian who served as a captain on the staff of Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont, the Union commander at this battle. Cross Keys was the second-to-last battle in Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s great Shenandoah Valley campaign. The superintendent’s lodge at the entrance to the cemetery was built about 1871 in the Second Empire style from a design by Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. The Staunton National Cemetery was listed in the registers under the Civil War-Era National Cemeteries Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) nomination form.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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