Oct 30  In Permanent Dignity and Tranquility
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-10-30

Sharon Goodrich presents today's Natchez History Minute about the establishment of the Natchez National Cemetery in 1866, one of twenty-one created to assure that Union Soldiers would lie in permanent dignity and tranquility. Today, the cemetery is the final resting place for 8,309 soldiers, sailors and marines from every era since 1862, including one Medal of Honor recipient and men who perished at Pearl Harbor.