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The following Roll of Honor, prepared in this office by Brevet Brigadier General Alex. J. Perry, quartermaster United States Army, containing the record of 23,016 deceased Union soldiers interred in the national cemeteries at Memphis, Tennessee, and Chalmette, (near New Orleans,) Louisiana, is published by authority of the Secretary of War for the information of their surviving friends and comrades.

The Monument National Cemetery is situated in Chalmette, Louisiana, in the parish of St. Bernard, and fronts on the Mississippi River.  It is six miles below the city of New Orleans, and one mile below the United States Jackson barracks.

This cemetery contains about thirteen and a half acres of land, which originally belonged to Charles Rixner, from whom it was purchased by the city of New Orleans, in 1861, and ceded by the city to the United States for the purpose to which it has been devoted.

The ground is low and flat, and, like all the region below New Orleans, is protected from the inundations of the Mississippi River by a substantial levee.  Although naturally not very picturesque, it has been so improved by the setting out of young cedar, arbor vitae, and magnolia trees, and by the planting of oleanders, jessamine, and other varieties of shrubs, that it now presents a very beautiful appearance.

It is laid out in a rectangular form with two long and two short sides.  The whole is enclosed on the long sides with a cypress fence, and on the short sides with an iron railing.

The construction of this cemetery was begun by Captain N.S. Constable, assistant quartermaster United States army in May, 1864.  The grounds are laid out with walks and avenues, graded and shelled, and well drained.  In the centre a handsome mound has been raised and a flagstaff erected.

The interments made in this cemetery number 12,241; of these the accompanying Roll of Honor contains the record of 9,054, the remainder having been published in Roll of Honor, No. VII.  The graves are all marked with suitable headboards properly numbered.

This cemetery is situated upon ground that will ever be memorable in the annals of our country as the scene of General Jackson's greatest triumph--the battle of New Orleans.  About 600 yards northwest of the cemetery stands Jackson's Monument, from which the cemetery takes it's name.

The associations and memories connected with this hallowed spot render it the most fitting location that could have been selected in the vicinity of New Orleans as a site for a National Cemetery.  The ashes of our gallant dead who fell in the defense of the Union during the late rebellion there mingle with those of the brave defenders of 1815.

A neat brick "receiving tomb" has been erected to receive the remains of officers and soldiers who may die in the Gulf States, while awaiting transportation to their northern homes; and a brick lodge has been built for the accommodation of the superintendent, appointed by the War Department to take charge of the cemetery.