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Site Name Beaufort National Cemetery Street Address 1601 Boundary Street City / State / Zip Beaufort SC, 29902 Phone number 843-524-3925 Web Page www.cem.va.gov   Admission Fee Free. Hours Office, Mon.-Fri. 8:00 A.M.-4:30 P.M.; cemetery, daily from dawn to dusk. Visitor services None. Regular Events None.     Directions From I-95 take exit 33 to Beaufort; take U.S. Highway 21 south through Pocotaligo, Sheldon, and Garden's Corner; proceed past the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station on left. Beaufort National Cemetery is on the left-hand side of the road 2 miles after the air station.
Site Description
This national cemetery was established in 1863 for the burial of Union soldiers who died during the Federal occupation of Beaufort and for the reinterment of Union soldiers' remains from various locations in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. More than 9,000 Union soldiers or veterans are buried here; 4,400 of them are unknown, including 2,800 prisoners of war from the camp at Millen, Georgia. Seventeen hundred African American Union soldiers are also buried at Beaufort National Cemetery. There are 117 Confederate soldiers buried here.

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