Inscription on the base of the 1876 monument at Salisbury National Cemetery next to the mass burial trenches of imprisoned Union Civil War soldiers

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Salisbury National Cemetery was created after the American Civil War on the site of mass burial graves of Union soldiers who died at the Salisbury Prison Camp. Trenches on the site hold an unknown number of soldiers who died due to disease from exposure and starvation. The monument erected in 1876 places the number at 11,700 but modern research estimates the number of soldiers at around 3,800. Today the cemetery holds around 1,300 individual graves and is the only national cemetery in NC open to more burials.

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Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, NC, United States
Photo credit: © D Guest Smith / Alamy / Afripics
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