From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/29/1867, p. 4, c. 1

CEMETERIES FOR FEDERAL SOLDIERS. – The following is a list of the cemeteries and the number of persons interred in each:

Congressional, D. C., 151; Old Soldiers’ Home, D. C., 5,613; Union, D. C., 1,012; Harmony, D. C., 3,336; Arlington cemetery, 12,281 (including 2,000 bodies in the vault); Battle cemetery, D. C., 40; Alexandria cemetery, Virginia, 3,601; Ball’s Bluff, Virginia, 54; Antietam, (not completed,) 2,741; Fredericksburg, (not completed,) 13,274; Richmond, Virginia, (not completed,) 3,052 (all the bodies deposited in Hollywood, Oakwood, Belle Isle, and other cemeteries in the vicinity of Richmond will be exhumed and interred in this grand national cemetery); Poplar Grove, Virginia, (not completed,) 5,007; Danville, Virginia, (not completed,) 12,016; Glendale, Virginia, 1,197; Seven Pines, Virginia, 1,356; Coal Harbor, Virginia, 1,930; Fort Harrison, Virginia, 813; Winchester, Virginia, 4,189; Yorktown, Virginia, 2,180; Hampton and Fort Monroe, 3,741; City Point, Virginia, 5,463; Andersonville, 12,918. – Chronicle.

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