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Civil War | Cemetery
Beaufort National Cemetery
South Carolina
1601 Boundary Street
Beaufort, South Carolina 29902
Website: www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/beaufort.asp
This national cemetery was established in 1863 for the burial of Union soldiers who died during the Federal occupation of Beaufort and for the reinterment of Union soldiers' remains from various locations in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. More than 9,000 Union soldiers or veterans are buried here; 4,400 of them are unknown, including 2,800 prisoners of war from the camp at Millen, Georgia. Seventeen hundred African-American Union soldiers are also buried at Beaufort National Cemetery. One hundred and seventeen Confederate soldiers are buried here.
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