Coordinates: 38°56′40″N 77°00′32″W / 38.94434°N 77.008817°W
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located next to the military retirement home. It is one of only two national cemeteries administered by the Department of the Army—the other being Arlington National Cemetery. The national cemetery is adjacent to the historic Rock Creek Cemetery and to the Soldiers' Home.
Notable internments
- Thomas Boyne (died 1896), Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Benjamin Brown (died 1910), Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Denny (died 1901), Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Henry Jackson Hunt (1819-1889), Union army general in the American Civil War
- John C. Kelton (1828-1893), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1889 to 1892
- John A. Logan (1826–1886), Union army general and 1884 Republican vice presidential nominee.
- David S. Stanley (1828-1902), Union army general and Medal of Honor recipient
- Agnes von Kurowsky, an American nurse who was reportedly the basis for a character in A Farewell to Arms.
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