Cypress Hills Cemetery, the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York, is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1848, a section of the cemetery was designated as the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in 1862 as amilitary burial ground for soldiers of the American Civil War. Amongst those interred here are:
CypressHills National Cemetery is among those cemeteries of the National Cemetery System which date their establishment from authority granted in an omnibus act containing legislation on a variety of subjects approved by President Lincoln on July 17, 1862.
Eligibility for burial in national cemeteries was initially restricted to the soldiers of the United States who fell in battle during the Civl War or died of wounds in hospitals during that war.
CypressHills National Cemetery, by its location in a metropolitan area, particularly felt the impact of the liberalized burial regulations, and it became evident that additional land would be necessary for cemetery purposes to supplement the 2.75 acres utilized since 1862 and acquired by purchase in 1870.
CypressHills began as a zone of the Interior Military Cemetery and was located within the boundaries of the large and private CypressHillsCemetery in Brooklyn.
In addition, in 1941, a small tract within the old CypressHillsCemetery, known as the Mount of Victory Plot, was donated by the State of New York.
Although CypressHills was established to honor Civil War veterans, its grounds include the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, Spanish-American War, Korean and Vietnam wars.
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