Baton Rouge National Cemetery

The brick wall around the cemetery dates from 1878, and its builders are in the ground behind it. Michael and Bernard Jodd died of yellow fever that September and were buried here. The site had taken burials since about 1830 and became a national cemetery in 1867, mostly for Civil War dead. Over 5,000 are interred on 7.7 acres, including Gen. Philemon Thomas, reinterred in 1886, and Lt. Gen. Troy Middleton, later president of LSU. The cemetery was listed on the National Register in 1997.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Capitol Park Museum — 1.2 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Old State Capitol — 1.3 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 1.3 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 4.1 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Magnolia Cemetery — steps away
• Baton Rouge Pool Swim-In — 0.8 mi
• Beauregard Town — 1.1 mi
• Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March — 1.1 mi