Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

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Notable burials

Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.^[3]
Confederate Generals Young Marshall Moody (1822–1866), who died of yellow fever, Thomas M. Scott (1828–1876)
Confederate supporter and resister of Union occupation William Bruce Mumford (1819–1862), who was hanged on June 7 for tearing down a United States flag during Union Army occupation of New Orleans during the American Civil War
Union Army Brigadier General and Brevet Major General William Plummer Benton (1828–1867), who was Collector of Internal Revenue in the City of New Orleans after the Civil War and died of yellow fever
There are nine British Commonwealth service personnel, registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who are buried or specially commemorated here – four from World War I and five from World War II.^[4]

Journalist and author of Louisiana topics Gwen Bristow (1903–1980)^[5]
Jazz musician Sam Butera (1927–2009)
MLB pitcher Al Jurisich (1921–1981)
MLB pitcher Jack Kramer (1918–1995)
Politician Effingham Lawrence (1820–1878) who served a single day (March 3, 1875) as a US Congressman ^[6]
Jazz musician Nick LaRocca (1889–1961)^[7]
MLB pitcher Joe Martina (1889–1962)^[8]
US District Court Judge A. J. McNamara (1936–2014) also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives
Actor Emile Meyer (1910–1987)^[9]
Jazz musician Leon Roppolo (1902–1943)
Governor Oramel H. Simpson (1870–1932)
MLB player, coach, and manager George "Bo" Strickland (1926–2010)
Novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, a Pulitzer Prize winner^[10]
Soprano Thaïs St. Julien (1945–2019)
Michael Culligan, Assistant District Attorney for New Orleans (22 years)

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