[citation needed] Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 14.8 acres (6.0 ha) and as of the end of 2005 it had 4,699 interments.

First established in 1862 as a cemetery for nearby Camp Crittenden, the Union supply depot in Lebanon, and the military hospitals in the area.

Two donations of land in the 1980s expanded the cemetery to its current size.

[1] Numerous Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Perryville are interred there.

[2] Media related to Lebanon National Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons