United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

  • Thomas Boyne (1849–1896), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Benjamin Brown (1859–1910), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
  • John Denny (1846–1901), Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars, sergeant, and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Henry Jackson Hunt (1819–1889), Union army chief of artillery, and artillery general of The Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War
  • John C. Kelton (1828–1893), Adjutant Brigadier General of the U.S. Army from 1889 to 1892
  • John A. Logan (1826–1886), Union army major general in the American Civil War, 1884 Republican vice presidential nominee, Illinois senator (1853–1857), (1871–1877), and Illinois representative (1867–1871).
  • David S. Stanley (1828–1902), Union army major general in the American Civil War and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Agnes von Kurowsky, a German-American nurse during World War I who was reportedly the basis for a character in A Farewell to Arms.

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