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Battle of Fredericksburg • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Facts • Armies

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Fredericksburg National Cemetery is at Stop One on the Fredericksburg Battlefield Auto Tour. The cemetery is part of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and is just west of the Visitor Center on Willis Hill, the largest of the hills that make up Marye’s Heights.

Interment of remains in the cemetery began after the war in 1866. It was estimated that over 100,000 Federal soldiers had died within 20 miles of Fredericksburg. By 1869 15,243 had been gathered on Marye’s Heights. Only 2.473 of those were identified. Most were enlisted men, as officers were usually taken home by their families. They were not organized by state or unit, but were buried as they came in over the three year period. All were Federal; Confederate dead were taken to their own cemeteries in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania.

For the next seventy five years around 300 veterans of the Spanish-American War and both world wars were buried here. The cemetery was closed to interments in 1945.

The National Cemetery contain a number of monuments dedicated to Union soldiers and officers, as well as a Confederate battery that fought here and a handful of interpretive markers:

monuments
127th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument
The Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac monument
Compass Rose
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys monument
Colonel Joseph A. Moesch monument
Parker’s Battery (C.S.A.) monument

historical markers
Fredericksburg Campaign – Marye’s Heights historical marker
Fredericksburg National Cemetery wayside marker (2 markers)
Second Battle of Fredericksburg wayside marker