Abraham Lincoln established the National Cemetery system to ensure that America's military veterans were properly memorialized. Over three million are now interred, including 763 Medal of Honor recipients, four presidents, astronauts, Indian scouts, camp followers, and spies. This comprehensive reference work provides information on how each national cemetery was chosen, why it was established, and brief stories on notable individuals buried there. Also included are state veterans cemeteries, confederate cemeteries, soldiers' lots, monuments, special installations, and "lost" cemeteries. Appendices contain Memorial Day orders, the history of the Medal of Honor, government headstones and markers, and breakdowns of cemeteries by state and year of establishment.
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This exhaustive compendium of information about military cemeteries is not only a prime reference source but an interesting guide to local military history. The author, a director of the National Cemetery System, identifies and describes each of the numerous sites administered by the Veterans Administration. Medal of Honor recipients and lists of cemetery directors are included as well. Best of all, Holt provides fascinating capsule descriptions of the historical circumstances of each cemetery's founding. His section on foreign cemeteries is fairly weak, but Elizabeth Nishiura's book on overseas memorials, American Battle Monuments ( LJ 5/15/90), is a nice supplement. Recommended for most libraries.
- Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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