Danville National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 36.577175, -79.390044
County: City of Danville
Record count: 2,423

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

Directions: Located south of downtown Danville, at the end of Berryman Ave, where it intersects with Lee St. The cemetery occupies the north-east corner of Greenhill Cemetery.

Background: Danville National Cemetery was established in December 1866 to provide a permanent resting place for Union soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Danville’s Confederate prison camps during the Civil War. Located about a mile from the railroad station, the original 2.63-acre cemetery holds primarily the remains of Union POWs who perished from disease and starvation in six overcrowded tobacco warehouses converted into prisons between 1863 and 1865. Initially buried in mass graves, the soldiers’ remains were later reinterred beneath individual headstones. Only four interments came from outside the prison system—members of the Sixth Army Corps.

Burial Records

• Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (2,423 records)

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