Established by the Florida Territorial Council in 1829, this is the oldest public cemetery in Tallahassee, and was acquired by the City of Tallahassee in 1840. The cemetery contains both a Confederate soldiers section in the eastern half and a Union and Reconstruction soldiers section in the western half. At least 186 Confederate soldiers are buried in the cemetery with at least 55 in the Confederate section, and the rest throughout the cemetery in family plots.

Notable among the Confederate veterans is Colonel David Lang, who commanded the Florida Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg and the surrender at Appomattox. In the postwar period, he served as the Adjutant General of the Florida State Militia.

A State Historical Marker for Major General David Lang marks his gravesite. At least 72 Union soldiers, both black and white, are buried here, with at least 37 buried in the Union soldiers section, and the rest buried throughout the cemetery.

It is said that some casualties from the 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge are buried in the Union section, although at least some of their remains appear to have been moved and reinterred in 1868 in the National Cemetery at Beaufort, South Carolina. Among the Union veterans buried in this cemetery is Major Edmund C. Weeks who commanded the 2nd Florida Union Cavalry, a regiment of Florida Unionists and Confederate deserters which operated out of Fort Myers and Cedar Key.

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Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State.