In 1868, the U.S. Navy Yard Cemetery at the Marine Hospital was transferred to the War Department and designated Barrancas National Cemetery.

Sections 1 thru 12 of the cemetery contain the remains of 1,239 Union Civil War casualties, as well as the remains of 72 Confederate soldiers.

The Union dead include troops stationed at Pensacola and bodies removed from Bayou Chico, Gunboat Point and Santa Rosa Island in Escambia County, East Pass in Okaloosa County, Apalachicola in Franklin County, St. Andrew Bay in Bay County, and Marianna in Jackson County.

Among the Union dead are 650 white Union soldiers, 252 U.S. Colored Troops, and 337 officers and sailors of the Union navy.

Other sections of the cemetery also contain the remains of Fort Barrancas, Pensacola.

Florida Civil War casualties relocated there after the war. An example of this occurred in 1927 when the U.S. military abandoned the Key West Post Cemetery, and its 468 burials, many of them Union yellow fever casualties, were disinterred and reburied at the Barrancas National Cemetery.

Information provided by the Florida Department of State.