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Alexandria National Cemetery (Louisiana)

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The cemetery is closed to new interments. Exceptions to this include subsequent interments for veterans or eligible family members in an existing gravesite. Cemetery policy allows for first-come, first-served waitlist to eligible veterans if burial space becomes available due to a canceled
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In 1867, an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot was appropriated from a local resident to establish the Alexandria National Cemetery. It was originally intended as a place to bury
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alexandria National Cemetery (Louisiana)
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Alexandria National Cemetery, 209 East Shamrock Street, Pineville, Rapides Parish, LA
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There are 5 German POWs interred at The Alexandria National Cemetery
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reservation or when a disinterment has been completed.
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Historic veterans cemetery in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Alexandria National Cemetery (Louisiana) is located in Louisiana
Alexandria National Cemetery (Louisiana) is located in the United States
Pineville, Louisiana
31°19′21″N 92°25′56″W / 31.32250°N 92.43222°W / 31.32250; -92.43222
MPS
Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
97000767
United States National Cemetery
Pineville
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Union
Civil War
Cheneyville
Yellow Bayou
Fort Brown
Texas
National Register of Historic Places
Sputnik Monroe
Patsy Flaherty
Gillis William Long
Jacob Brown
Fort Brown, Texas
John J. Williams (American Civil War)

American Civil War
Ira W. Claflin
Buffalo Soldiers
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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