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Mobile National Cemetery
Mobile National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Mobile, Alabama. It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 5,326 interments. It is an annex to the larger Magnolia Cemetery.〔Sledge, John Sturdivant. ''Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile's Historic Cemeteries'', pages 24-26. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.〕 Mobile National Cemetery is administered by Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida, and is currently closed to new interments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work="U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs" )〕
== History ==
Mobile National Cemetery was established in 1865, when Union troops occupied the city of Mobile after the Battle of Mobile Bay, during the Civil War.〔 Initially, casualties of the battle were interred in a section of the city owned Magnolia Cemetery, but they quickly had a need for more space and a plot of was granted to the Army by the city in 1866.〔 By 1871, the cemetery had 841 interments, mostly soldiers whose remains were moved from other nearby battlefield sites.〔
Mobile National Cemetery was listed, along with the rest of Magnolia Cemetery, on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 June 1986.〔
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