Finns Point National Cemetery - Pennsville, NJ
N 39° 36.675 W 075° 33.349
18S E 452287 N 4384758
Finns Point National Cemetery was officially designated as a national cemetery in October 1875 by the United States government and is a tangible link to the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM7BBD
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2009
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Having both Union and Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War buried within the confines of the same national cemetery, albeit in separate sections, makes Finns Point somewhat unique.
The names of 105 Union soldiers known to have died at Fort Delaware during the war are inscribed on the Union monument erected in 1879 in Finns Point National Cemetery with an inscription noting that the remaining 30 were buried as unknowns. The Confederate memorial obelisk built of reinforced concrete, covered with a facing of Pennsylvania granite, stands 85 feet tall and was completed in 1912. And in 1936, the Union monument was moved a short distance to its present location and a Grecian cupola or cover was added.
The American Guide Series entry on this site is interesting to read:
"At 3.7 m. is (R) the Fort Mott National Cemetery (open daily, in summer 8-5, in winter 8-4), the only national cemetery in New Jersey in which Confederate soldiers are buried. More than 2,400 prisoners captured in the Battle of Gettysburg, and later victims of an epidemic, have been interred here; an obelisk 85 feet high honors the Confederate dead." --- New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past, 1939; page 632