Seven Pines National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 37.520539, -77.301774
County: Henrico
Record count: 1,249

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

Directions: Located in the Sandston community east of Richmond, at the intersection of E Williamsburg Rd and E Nine Mile Rd.

Background: Seven Pines National Cemetery is located on a portion of the Battle of Fair Oaks (also known as the Battle of Seven Pines).After the close of the Civil War, Lieut. Col. James H. Moore, assistant quartermaster, was authorized to select a site for a permanent national cemetery for the interment of the battlefield dead. The original 1.3-acre site was appropriated in 1866, and later purchased, from Richard Hilliard. Two small plots of land were added to the site in 1874 and 1875. The cemetery name is derived from the seven pine trees planted along the inside of the cemetery wall in 1869. A program of concentrating the battlefield remains began in May 1866. More than four years had elapsed since the first casualties of the war had been hastily buried, however, and the remains were often difficult to identify. As a result, 1,216 interments were unknown here, compared to 141 known dead.

Burial Records

• Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (1,249 records)

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