Richmond National Cemetery lies some 15 miles east of New Kent . . .
At the close of the Civil War, the remains of Union soldiers who died during the numerous battles in and around Richmond, including the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, the 1864 Overland Campaign, and the Sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, were scattered among the city’s cemeteries and battlefield burial grounds. When the Richmond National Cemetery opened in 1866, most of the first burials were reinterments of Union soldiers from other sites in the area. The reburied soldiers include 3,200 from Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, 388 from Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, 210 from the cemetery at the Belle Island Confederate Prison, and hundreds more from the battlefields of Cold Harbor, Seven Pines, and more than 70 additional sites within a 25-mile radius.
From Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers who Died in Defence of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries and Other Burial Places ... Vols 16-17
Union Soldiers Interred in Richmond National Cemetery, VA
Division: F
Section: 1
No. 5621
(76 to 148) 73 unknown
These bodies were interred in an triangular enclosure, at Bottom's Bridge, where the New Kent road crosses the Chickahominy river. No. 76 was No. 1 grave on the southwest corner of the triangle and the rows followed the hypotenuse.
