Chattanooga National Cemetery — Attraction in Chattanooga

Came to find my great great grandfather's grave. The folks in the office were wonderful. It's an old Civil War gravesite and while they couldnt tell where the exact site was, they could easily identify the location of section P and the road to get there. After a little sleuthing I found a section number close to what I was looking for. Counting down I found the right row and then after some more counting I came right to the marker. Et voila, "E. Wilkinson, G Company, 26 Illinois Infantry 13 March 1864). The cemetery itself is a reminder that this is perhaps the best example of the way our military members deserve to be treated. I sensed great respect and dignity with an honest desire to honor our nation's fallen service members. Thanks Chattanooga Naional Cemetery and thank you Dept of Veteran's Affairs. My only issue with the whole excursion today is that the address of the cemetery is officially 1200 Bailey Ave but the only entrance is around the corner on Holtzclaw. It wasn't a show stopper by any stretch of the imagination but following my GPS to a previously unknown location didn't get us to the entrance. Again, it wasn't a real problem, just a perplexing inconvenience that was quickly resolved. Dale Durnell, SMSgt,...

Absolutely beautiful cemetary. So quiet and peaceful. My only complain is the people who work here at the cemetery office. During my mothers funeral the gentleman, I believe his name is Chuck, hoovered over our service while the family was grieveing. He made us all uneasy by making his presence know by standing right beside my mothers casket and clearing his throat loudly when he felt like we had enough time to grieve and the service needed to come to an end. (we had only been there at the pavilion maybe 10 minutes). They also didn’t put the flowers on my mothers grave. We went back to the cemetary around 2 hours after the service and she didn’t have casket flowers on her grave. When we called and inquired about the flowers, we were told they had a bad problem with people stealing flowers from the graves. When we drove through the cemetary we noticed that very few flowers were present...

I arrived 20 minutes before the family procession arrived at the cemetery. When i parked staff told me that i could not park there. I told them ok but asked who they were waiting for? He said for Paul Norman. I responded & said that was who we were waiting for. At 12:02 pm the family procession passed by then the person we talked followed famiy. I thought the family were going to the area that we were at but they did not. About 15 minutes passed, we heard a loud boom. That we the 21 gun saluate that was in my Uncle's honor. I moved to where i heard the noise i saw the man that told us that we couldn't park there & the rest of the family. I couldn't believe it that your staff wouldn't inform us about where to go. I lonely saw 4 minutes of the of...