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Chalmette National Cemetery buries the Union dead beside Jackson's battlefield
Chalmette, Louisiana
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The federal government began burying Union soldiers on this ground in 1864, next to the field where Andrew Jackson beat the British in 1815. Most of the graves hold Civil War dead rather than veterans of the battle the place is famous for. Later burials added casualties from the Spanish American War, both world wars, Korea and Vietnam. The cemetery is now closed to new interments.
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