The original plot of land was leased, and later purchased, from Judge Nicholas Brewer.

The conditions in the camp were crowded and were not particularly sanitary; many soldiers wound up in one of the army field hospitals at the U.S.

Most of the original interments were men who died in the parole camp or the field hospitals.

Several Confederate prisoners, and one Russian national, also died in Annapolis and are buried in the cemetery.

[3] Many soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who served during, or died in, subsequent wars – as well as some of their dependents – are also interred there.