BGuthrie Photos: NJ -- Finn's Point National Cemetery

NJ -- Finn's Point National Cemetery:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FINNNC_080608_002.JPG: Finn's Point National Cemetery Though located far from any site of armed conflict, Finn's Point National Cemetery exists as a direct result of the American Civil War. It is the resting place for the remains of 2,436 Confederate soldiers whose military careers ended as prisoners of war under the Union forces. These men were interned 1-1/2 miles from here at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island. One hundred thirty-five Union soldiers who died while serving as guards at the prison camp are also buried here. The death toll among prisoners of war and the guards at Fort Delaware was high, especially in the latter part of 1863 and throughout 1864. By July of 1863, there were 12,595 prisoners on the island. It was considered a grim place and acquired a frightening reputation. Disease was rampant and nearly 2,700 prisoners died from malnutrition and neglect. In the northeast corner of the cemetery is the Confederate Monument -- a granite obelisk approximately fifty feet high, with commemorative bronze plaques identifying Confederate soldiers who died while interned at Fort Delaware. A stone table pillar and ornamental pyramid in the center of the domed marble Union Monument immortalizes 105 of the Union dead who died while serving duty on Pea Patch Island. The tablet also indicates that the remains of another thirty Union soldiers could not be identified. A few interments have been made for members of the U.S. Armed Forces from the Spanish-American War, World War I, and soldiers who served at nearby Fort Mott when it was an active military installation. In the northwest corner, 13 white marble headstones mark the burial place of German prisoners of World War II who died while in custody at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The cemetery is now closed for future interments except for cremated remains.
2. FINNNC_080608_012.JPG: Union guard section
3. FINNNC_080608_040.JPG: Confederate memorial
4. FINNNC_080608_056.JPG: Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 2436 Confederate soldiers who died at Fort Delaware while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be individually identified
5. FINNNC_080608_063.JPG: The German POW section
6. FINNNC_080608_093.JPG: Fort Mott deaths
7. FINNNC_080608_106.JPG: This is in the Fort Mott section. There's a typo on it which is highlighted in the next photo.
8. FINNNC_080608_111.JPG: Beneath the flag for wich [sic] he fought how peaceful is the rest
9. FINNNC_080608_124.JPG: Near this stone lie the remains of 135 United States soldiers whose names so far as known are hereon inscribed but whose graves cannot be identified THEY DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
Wikipedia Description: Finn's Point National Cemetery
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Finn's Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located 6 miles northwest of the city of Salem in Salem County, New Jersey. It encompasses 4.6 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 2,879 interments. It is administered by the Beverly National Cemetery.

History:

Originally purchased by the federal government to build a battery to protect the port of Philadelphia, the land became a cemetery by 1863 for Confederate prisoners of war who died while in captivity at Fort Delaware.

Officially made a National Cemetery on October 3, 1875 by request of Virginia Governor James L. Kemper, who criticized the poor maintenance of the Confederate gravesite.

Today Finn's Point National Cemetery is surrounded by Killchohook National Wildlife Refuge next to Fort Mott State Park, in Pennsville, NJ. Finn's Point National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Andrew Cunanan committed one of his murders at the cemetery on May 9, 1997, killing a cemetery caretaker and stealing his truck.

Notable monuments:

* The Confederate Monument, an 85 foot tall granite obelisk, erected in 1910 by the federal government in memory of the 2,436 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Fort Delaware. Their names are inscribed on the monument.
* The Union Monument, dedicated in 1879 to 135 Union soldiers who died while on duty at Fort Delaware.
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