Knoxville National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 35.975995, -83.926610
County: Knox
Record count: 9,364

Ownership: National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Directions: Located just north of downtown Knoxville, the main entrance to the cemetery lies along Tyson St. at the intersection with Pruett Place.

Background: Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside established the Knoxville National Cemetery during the Civil War after the siege of Knoxville and subsequent Battle of Fort Sander. Capt. E.B. Chamberlain, the assistant quartermaster, was assigned the task of designing the new cemetery. The first interments were remains exhumed from Cumberland Gap, Concord and many other regional sites. Chamberlain's design and system for recording interments was so effective that, in 1866, Gen. E.G. Whitman, observed that the cemetery had been "the only burial ground of Union soldiers…originally laid out and conducted to the present time in a manner and on a system that render[ed] it suitable to be converted into a national cemetery without material alteration or change, or removal of a single body." Knoxville National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 9,364 records
  • Unidentified Burials, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (1,093 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (8,271 records)

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