Chalmette National Cemetery

Among the thousands of stones, a few have stories. Sarah Rosetta Wakeman served in the Union Army disguised as a man under the name Lyons Wakeman and died of disease in New Orleans in 1864; she lies here. John E. Jones, a Medal of Honor recipient, is buried here too. Nearly 12,000 soldiers were moved in after the Civil War from makeshift graves across the state, and about 7,000 of the burials are unknown. Some Confederate soldiers first buried here were later moved to Cypress Grove Cemetery. Four graves belong to men of the War of 1812.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.2 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.7 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.7 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.8 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Pakenham's Fall — steps away
• The Kentucky Rifle — 0.3 mi
• Fazendeville — 0.3 mi
• Louisiana Militia — 0.5 mi