Fort Donelson National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 36.488043, -87.847252
County: Stewart
Record count: 1,910

Ownership: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

Directions: Located in north-central Dover, the cemetery sits on the west side of National Cemetery Drive, on the opposite side of Hillcrest Cemetery.

Background: Fort Donelson National Cemetery dates back to the Civil War era, following the passage in July 1862 of a law that empowered the President to acquire land for national cemeteries. In 1863, after the Union Army took control of the Confederate fortifications at Fort Donelson, they built fortifications on the ground that would later become the cemetery site. Four years later, in 1867, the site was formally established as Fort Donelson National Cemetery, with about 670 Union soldiers reinterred there from battlefields, hospitals, and other burial locations—among them 512 unknowns. Confederate soldiers, however, were not interred here, but in surrounding local cemeteries.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 1,910 records
  • National Park Service Records, by Interment.net, September 27, 2023, (1,592 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (318 records)

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