Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection Ik Quartermaster General's Office, General Orders No. 19, JTiihc 8, 186S. MdII of Hirno^ (No. XVI.) NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN DEFENCE OF THE AMERICAN UNION, INTERRED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND OTHER BUEIAL PLACES AT BGOOKLINE, CAMBRIDGE, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS; BUFFALO, CHAUTAUQUA, CYPRESS HILLS, (ADDITIONAL,) FORT NIAGARA, LOCKPORT, LODI, MADISON BARRACKS, PLATTSBURG BARRACKS, AND ROCHESTER, NEW YORK; GETTYSBURG, MERCERSBURG, READING, PHILADELPHIA, TAMAQUA, AND UPTON, PENNSYLVANIA; BRATTLEBORO' AND MONTPELIER, VERMONT; CITY POINT, (ADDITIONAL,) DANVILLE, (ADDITIONAL,) GLENDALE, RICHMOND, AND YORKTOWN, (ADDITIONAL,) VIRGINIA. " Though mixed with earth their perishable clay, Their names shall live while glory loves to tell, heir country, how they won the day, How firm the heroes stood, how calm they fell." WASHINGTON: G DVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. qr973 1868. U58q v. 7 6 For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY THE GIFT OF Mrs. R.Myles Bell I For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection 1 Quartermaster General's Office, General Orders No. 19, June S, 186S. Molt of Sottas (No. XVI.) "r NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN DEFENCE OF THE AMERICAN UNION, INTERRED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND 'OTHEK BUKIAL PLACES BBOOKLINE, CAMBRIDGE, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS; BUFFALO, CHAUTAUQUA, CYPRESS HILLS, (ADDITIONAL,) FORT NIAGARA, LOCKPORT, LODI, MADISON BARRACKS, PLATTSBURG BARRACKS, AND ROCHESTER, NEW YORK; GETTYSBURG, MERCERSBURG, READING, PHILADELPHIA, TAMAQUA, AND UPTON, PENNSYLVANIA; BEATTLEBOEO' AND MONTPELIER, VERMONT; CITY POINT, (ADDITIONAL,) DANVILLE, (ADDITIONAL,) GLENDALE, EICHMOND, AND YORKTOWN, (ADDITIONAL,) VIRGINIA. "Though mixed with earth their perishable clay, Their names shall live while glory loves to tell, True to their country, how they won the day, How firm the heroes stood, how calm they fell." WASHINGTON1: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. ' 1868.. For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection lb'**73 ROLL OF HONOR, NO. XVI. general orders i QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 19. S Washington, D. 0., June 8, 1868. The following volume (XVIth) of the "Eolls of Honor," prepared in the eemeterial branch of this office under the direction of Brevet Brig. General A. J. Peeby, Q. M., U. S. A., containing alphabetical lists of names of United States soldiers interred at Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, and Worcester, Massachusetts ; Buffalo, Chautauqua, Cypress Hills, Fort Niagara, Lockport, Lodi, Madison Barracks, Plattsburg Barracks, and Rochester, New York ; Gettysburg, Mercersburg, Philadelphia, Beading, Tamaqua, and Upton, Pennsylvania; Brattleboro' and Montpelier, Vermont; City Point, Danville, Glendale, Richmond, and Yorktown, Virginia; is published by authority of the Secretary of War for the information of their surviving comrades and friends. M. C. MEIGS, Quartermaster General U. 8. A., Brevet Major General. i-ia For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, D. C, May 28, 1868. Bv't Maj. Gen'l D. H. Rttokek, Acting Quartermaster General, TJ. S. A., Washington, D. C. Genebal : I have the honor to transmit herewith, for publication, alphabetical lists of names of United States soldiers interred at the following places, viz: Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, and Worcester, Massachusetts; Buffalo, Chautauqua, Cypress Hills, Fort Niagara, Lockport, Lodi, Madison Barracks, Plattsburg Barracks, and Rochester, New York; Gettysburg, Mercersburg, Reading, Philadelphia, Tamaqua, and Upton, Pennsylvania; Brattleboro' and Montpelier, Vermont; And City Point, Danville, Glendale, Richmond, and Yorktown, Vir ginia. These lists, prepared in the cemeterial branch of this office, with a brief history of each Cemetery, contain 20,440 names, and will consti tute the XVIth volume of the " Rolls of Honor." Very Respectfully, Your obedient servant, ALEX. J. PERRY, BvH Brig. Gen'l, Q. M. U. S. A.. For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, D. C, May 27, 1868. Brevet Brig. Gen. A. J. Peery, Q. M. U. S. A., Washington, D. V. Sie: I. I have the honor to forward herewith, for publication, the records of interments of United States soldiers at the National Cemeteries at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and at Richmond and Glendale, Virginia, together with those at many of the smaller Cemeteries in the States of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, and a number of names (additional to those heretofore published) of those buried in> the Cemeteries at Cypress Hill, near Brooklyn, N. Y., and at City Point, Danville, and Yorktown, Va., together with brief histories of the more important of such Cemeteries the whole constituting the XVlth volume of the "Rolls of Honor." " n. A portion of the names contained in the record of Richmond National Cemetery," in this volume, have been previously published in volumes XII and XIV of the "Rolls of Honor.; " but this record not only contains many names since added, but differs from either of those pre viously printed, in having the number and section of the grave attached to all the names. The bodies previously reported were those buried at Belle Isle, Hollywood, and Oakwood Cemeteries, which bodies have since been removed and re-interred in the National Cemetery at Richmond, under the direction of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Moore, Chief Quartermaster First Military District. in. Of the 20,440 graves enumerated in this volume, the names of those buried in 8,625 (about 42 per cent) are known, and of those in is thus 11,815 (about 58 per cent.) unknown. The proportion of known less than one-half, or about 25 per cent, less than that which generally holds good throughout the country, which is thought to be about two- thirds known and one-third unknown. The extraordinarily small pro portion of known in this volume arises from the circumstance that the those of graves herein enumerated, particularly in Virginia, are mostly those who soldiers who fell in the early part of the war, (in Virginia of the fact that fell in the campaign of 1862, on the peninsula.) Owing to the whole these graves were only temporarily marked, and that region of our forces for where they were buried was not again in the possession to a period "of two years, it has been impossible, in most cases, identify the remains. For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit... http://www.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County • Historic Monographs Collection Vlll IV. This volume (the XVIth of the "Rolls of Honor") increases the total number of graves now recorded in printed form to about 155,000. Of the occupants of these graves, the names of about 100,000 appear as known, leaving about 55,000 as yet unknown. Many of these unknown remains were doubtless marked by their friends or comrades at the time. of their burial, and records of the names of many others were doubtless made at the time, (where buried in groups or from hospitals,) and may have been preserved (in connection with plans or schedules of the position of the graves) by the immediate friends of the dead, the officers in com mand of the burial squads, or the surgeons in charge of field hospitals. It is desirable that all persons who may have such records in their posses sion should know that it is the wish of this department to recover and make use of all such means of identification ; that the lists or plans may be forwarded to the Quartermaster General at Washington free of post age ; and that when they are received immediate steps will be taken to establish the identity of the remains, to enclose and properly decorate the graves, and to have the name and place recorded in printed form. V. It is supposed that there yet remains to be printed the records of about 150,000 graves of the deceased soldiers and prisoners of war be to the Union an longing armies, making aggregate of 305,000 graves ; and that of this whole number of 305,000 graves, the names of 100,000 of the occupants will not at present, if ever, be recovered. VI. The whole number of soldiers who have fallen in the ranks of the Union armies for the suppression of the rebellion is supposed to be about the 355,000, exceeding number of recognized graves by 50,000. This number of whose are not men, graves recognized as in existence, either as known or is to be unknown, supposed made up approximately as follows, viz: 1. Killed in battle and never buried 25 ' 000 2. Drowned 5'oOO 3. Graves in remote localities and not found yet 15'oOO' 4. Graves covered by deposits of gravel and sand made by the Mississippi river and its tributaries in floods 2' 000 5. Graves carried away by the caving in of the banks of the same 3,000 Total 50,000 The number of those who died at their homes, after being mustered out, from wounds or disease contracted while in the service, is not embraced in any of the above enumerations. VII. The lists to be in future printed will contain the names of most of the soldiers buried in the States of West Virginia, North and South For current National & State Veterans Burial records, please visit..