Danville National Cemetery - Danville, IL
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N 40° 08.608 W 087° 37.502
16T E 446759 N 4443868
The National Cemetery dates from 1898 when the Danville Branch of the Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers opened. The cemetery was originally a small plot to the east of the two circles on campus.
Waymark Code: WMC83V
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2011
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Continued from the National Park Service website listed below:
"In 1901, a new cemetery was laid out in concentric circles on 30 acres to the southeast of the original cemetery. Ninety-nine graves from the first cemetery were moved and reinterred in the new cemetery. The cemetery now contains thousands of veterans' graves. A Civil War Soldiers Monument, designed by sculptor Clark Nobel, was dedicated at the cemetery on Memorial Day in 1917. Clark Nobel sculpted the bronze life-sized figure of a Civil War soldier holding a musket."
Sculptor Clark Noble has numerous entries in the Smithsonian database including Civil War monuments at Antietam and Gettysburg.
Getting to the cemetery and the monument requires some careful driving through the VA grounds and paying attention to the signs. There is a tablet with Lincoln's Gettysburg address at the entrance to the cemetery.
The official cemetery website is (
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Medal of Honor awardee Morton A. Read is buried here. From (
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"Rank and organization: Lieutenant, Company D, 8th New York Cavalry. Place and date: At Appomattox Station, Va., 8 April 1865. Entered service at: Brockport, N.Y. Birth: Brockport, N.Y. Date of issue: 3 May 1865. Citation: Capture of flag of 1st Texas Infantry (C.S.A.)."