National Cemetery

The Cemetery is located at 939 Tyson Street, NW. This is in the back of the Old Gray Cemetery. Union Major General Ambrose Burnside established this cemetery during the Civil War. There are over 9,000 internments. These are not just from the Civil War, as this continued to be the only cemetery for Veterans in Knoxville until the establishment of the East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery at 5901 Lyons View Pike. The Knoxville National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Monument to Union Soldiers and details from the monument.

TO THE TENNESSEE MEN
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES A VOLUNTARY
SACRIFICE ON
FREEDOMS ALTAR
WHO ENDEAVORED WITH FORTITUDE TEMPORARY BANISH
MENT FROM THEIR MOUNTAIN HOMES; WHO FOLLOWES
THE FLAG THEY LOVED
ON SCORES OF BATTLE-FIELDS AND WHO FELL
VALIANTLY CONTENDING FOR NATIONAL UNITY,
THIS MONUMENT
IS LOVINGLY ERECTED BY THOSE SURVIVING
COMRADES AND FRIENNDS