Alexandria National Cemetery (Louisiana)
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Alexandria National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Pineville, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It occupies approximately 8 acres, and is site to 10,164 interments as of the end of 2005.
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[edit] History
In 1867, an eight acre plot was appropriated from local resident to establish the Alexandria National Cemetery. It was originally intended as a place to bury Union soldiers who died in the area during the Civil War, but later, remains from Mount Pleasant, Cheneyville and Yellow Bayou and Fort Brown, Texas were re-interred in Alexandria.
Alexandria National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
[edit] Notable burials
- There are 57 Buffalo Soldiers interred at the Alexandria National Cemetery.
- Former congressman Gillis W. Long.
- Major Jacob Brown, for whom Fort Brown, Texas, was named.
