Fort Scott National Cemetery

Monument to Sacrifice

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On these grounds are buried hundreds of soldiers who served their country with honor. Many died in combat. Included in the burials here are Civil War soldiers who died in the hospital located on the grounds of the historic site. Also interred here are African American soldiers, American Indian soldiers and soldiers who died at the fort in the 1840s who were later reinterred here.

During the Civil War, the original post cemetery near the fort was determined inadequate and a new cemetery was established outside the town to inter soldiers who died in the line of duty. The new cemetery became Fort Scott National Cemetery in 1862, one of 14 original national cemeteries designated by President Abraham Lincoln. The cemetery is administered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (National Cemetery Administration) and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.