Civil War Memorial Cemetery in Magnet, Indiana

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Get directions Parks Road (County Road 36)
Magnet, Indiana 47250 United States

Coordinates: 38.09188, -86.45216
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On August 21, 1865, the Steamer USS Argosy (Number 3) was caught in a storm, blown aground and her boilers exploded. Ten Fatalties occured amoung Union Soldiers returning home from War Service. They were buried in a Mass Grave one half mile from Magnet, Indiana (Rono) where memorial markers perpetuate this burial ground.

The cemetery is located in Union Township on the south side of Parks Road about 0.7 miles south of its intersection with Magnet Valley Road.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Civil War Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-62-133 (Unknown / Civil War Memorial Cemetery).