Mobile National Cemetery

Mobile National Cemetery was established in 1865, when Union troops occupied the city of Mobile after the Battle of Mobile Bay, during the Civil War.[4] Initially, casualties of the battle were interred in a section of the city owned Magnolia Cemetery, but they quickly had a need for more space and a plot of 3 acres (1.2 ha) was granted to the Army by the city in 1866.[4] By 1871, the cemetery had 841 interments, mostly soldiers whose remains were moved from other nearby battlefield sites.[4]

Mobile National Cemetery was listed, along with the rest of Magnolia Cemetery, on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 June 1986.[1]

• The 76th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment Monument was erected in 1892 by the survivors of the Battle of Fort Blakely.[4]
• The Confederate Fortification Monument, a granite monument, was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1940.[4]

• Private First Class John Dury New (1924–1944 †), US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient for action in World War II in the Palau Islands.[5]

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs

• National Cemetery Administration
• Mobile National Cemetery
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mobile National Cemetery
• Mobile National Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. AL-1, "Mobile National Cemetery, 1202 Virginia Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL", 38 photos, 4 photo caption pages