Fort Harrison National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 37.428576, -77.366507
County: Henrico
Record count: 1,316

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

Directions: Located south-east of Richmond, on the east side of James River, and east of the old Fort Harrison, on the west side of Varina Rd, about 1,000 feet south of the intersection with Picnic Rd.

Background: Fort Harrison National Cemetery is a small cemetery of 1.6 acres established after the end of the Civil War. A site near Fort Harrison was appropriated for use as a cemetery, to contain the original interments of Union soldiers who died on the battlefields of Forts Harrison, and Gilmer, and from some 40 locations within a five-mile area surrounding the cemetery. The number of unknown dead at Fort Harrison far exceeds the known dead. As of July 1876, 239 of 814 interments were known, while 575 were unknown, including four Confederate prisoners of war.

Burial Records

• Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (1,316 records)

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