Annapolis National Cemetery

Annapolis National Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Annapolis National Cemetery view
Location	800 West St., Annapolis, Maryland
Coordinates	38°58′38″N 76°30′19″W
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.	96000608
Added to NRHP	June 13, 1996

Annapolis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Annapolis, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It encompasses 4.1 acres (1.7 ha), and as of 2020, had over 3,100 interments. It is operated and maintained by the Baltimore National Cemetery.

History

Annapolis National Cemetery is one of the 14 national cemeteries established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to accommodate the dead from the American Civil War. The original plot of land was leased, and later purchased, from Judge Nicholas Brewer.

During the Civil War, Annapolis was a Union recruit training center. There was also a parole camp nearby (approximately three miles from what was then the city line) where Union prisoners who had been exchanged for Confederate prisoners were held until they could be returned to their own units. The conditions in the camp were crowded and were not particularly sanitary; many soldiers wound up in one of the army field hospitals at the U.S. Naval Academy and at St. John's College in downtown Annapolis. A large number succumbed to wounds they bore when they arrived, small pox, typhoid fever, dysentery or any of a number of other diseases. Most of the original interments were men who died in the parole camp or the field hospitals. Several Confederate prisoners, and one Russian national, also died in Annapolis and are buried in the cemetery.

Many soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who served during, or died in, subsequent wars – as well as some of their dependents – are also interred there.

Annapolis National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

See also

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• List of cemeteries in Maryland

External links

• Media related to Annapolis National Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons
• Annapolis National Cemetery Slide Show
• National Cemetery Administration
• Annapolis National Cemetery
• Navpooh's Annapolis National Cemetery Page
• Annapolis National Cemetery at Find a Grave
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Annapolis National Cemetery
• Annapolis National Cemetery, Anne Arundel County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. MD-6, "Annapolis National Cemetery, 800 West Street, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD", 14 photos, 2 photo caption pages