Mountain Home National Cemetery, Tennessee

The cemetery was established in 1903 as part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The Mountain Home Branch of the National Homes was the ninth and last of its kind, funded by Congress to care for Union Civil War veterans. Congress transferred it to the Veterans Administration in 1973. Four Medal of Honor Recipients and one Revolutionary War captain are buried here. Mountain Home National Cemetery holds the remains of 16 unknown U.S. soldiers from the First Tennessee Infantry who were killed or mortally wounded at the Battle of Monterrey (September 21, 1846).