Michael Blassie (1948–1972), previously interred as the "Vietnam unknown soldier" at the Tomb of the Unknowns from 1984 to 1998, re-interred here in 1998 after DNA testing positively identified his remains
Major Russell Bissell (1756–1807), veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars.
Colonel Thomas Hunt (1754–1808), a "Minuteman" at the Battle of Concord, April 1775. During the revolution he was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point and Siege of Yorktown. He was also a veteran of the Indian Wars and commanded the 1st Infantry Regiment.
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A monument entitled Memorial to the Confederate Dead was placed in Jefferson Barracks on May 1, 1988[4] It is located in section 66 of the cemetery. Not to be confused with the removed Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis).
To the Confederate Dead 1861–1865
Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade and again to hastily don out war gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle? Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the battle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well, and there will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?”
A monument dedicated to the 56th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was erected on May 19th, 1939 following the re-interment of 175 officers and soldiers at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in a mass grave.[4] The men had originally been buried at a cemetery at the former Koch Quarantine Hospital in St. Louis during a cholera outbreak in 1866, but were moved when the local community petitioned to have the soldiers be re-interred.[4][6] The original stone obelisk monument that was erected at Koch Quarantine Hospital bore a brief inscription:
“To the memory of 175 non com. officers and privates of the 56. U.S.C. infty. Died of cholera in August 1866.”
The War Department claimed that the names of the unknown soldiers would be placed on the monument when their names were discovered.[6]
In August of 2014, the St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society and Sarah Cato successfully petitioned to add a bronze marker with the names of all 175 men to the monument, in addition to the names of the men that were lost along the Mississippi river and whose bodies are unable to be recovered.[6]
“Dedicated to the soldiers of the 56th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops who died of cholera while in transport along the Mississippi River and at St. Louis, Missouri in Summer of 1866. In 1939, the remains of many of these soldiers, buried in the Koch Hospital Cemetery were reinterred here. A marble obelisk that was placed at the hospital cemetery was also moved here [...] other soldiers in the same regiment who died while in transport along the Mississippi River and whose remains are unrecoverable are memorialized here. May they rest in peace: August 2014.”
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is also home to one of the seven Minnesota Monuments commissioned by the State of Minnesota to commemorate soldiers from the state that died during the Civil War.[4] The monument, built in 1922 and designed by sculptor John K. Daniels, depicts a bronze woman with a wreath below her waist on top of a granite stone.[7][8]
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