The new section which is called the "Phoebus Addition" or the "Phoebus Section" West County Street in Hampton, VA east of I-64.

Both sections of the Hampton National Cemetery are closed to new interments.

[3] The first burials took place in the cemetery in 1862, and were primarily Union soldiers who died in service or at the hospital at Fort Monroe.

Hampton National Cemetery has the interred remains of World War II prisoners of war, 55 German and 5 Italian.

It also has the remains of 28 sailors from the German submarine U-85, which was sunk by USS Roper off Cape Hatteras in 1942.