Mobile National Cemetery was established in 1865, when Union troops occupied the city of Mobile after the Battle of Mobile Bay, during the Civil War.[4] Initially, casualties of the battle were interred in a section of the city owned Magnolia Cemetery, but they quickly had a need for more space and a plot of 3 acres (1.2 ha) was granted to the Army by the city in 1866.[4] By 1871, the cemetery had 841 interments, mostly soldiers whose remains were moved from other nearby battlefield sites.[4]
^Sledge, John Sturdivant. Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile's Historic Cemeteries, pp. 24–26. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.