Knoxville National Cemetery

	Knoxville National Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Union Soldier monument
Location	939 Tyson St., NW; Knoxville, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°58′32″N 83°55′39″W / 35.97556°N 83.92750°W
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.	96000966
Added to NRHP	September 12, 1996

Knoxville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Established during the Civil War in 1863, the cemetery currently encompasses 9.8 acres (4.0 ha), and as of the end of 2007, had 9,006 interments. The 60-foot (18 m) Union Soldier monument, which stands in the eastern corner of the cemetery, is one of the largest Union monuments in the South.^[1] In 1996, the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a multiple properties submission for national cemeteries.

^ Jack Neely, The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. xx–xxi, 47.

[marblecity-1] Jack Neely, The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. xx–xxi, 47.

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