National Park Service ~ Andersonville, GA ~ 27.15 acres ~ $5,746,000

The Andersonville National Cemetery is located 300 yards north of the infamous Andersonville Civil War prison site and is the final resting place for 12,920 prisoners of war who died in custody at the prison camp. Established in 1864, only three days after the first prisoners arrived, the burial grounds were designated a national cemetery on July 26, 1865, and was one of the sites in which Clara Barton cared for sick and wounded soldiers after the end of the Civil War. Since then, over 7,000 United States veterans and their families have joined the prisoner burials, making Andersonville National Cemetery an enduring place of rest for thousands who have served our nation since the Civil War. In recent years, the cemetery has needed substantial infrastructure rehabilitation to maximize burial spaces, provide irrigation to existing burial sections, reroute water and electrical utilities outside of the cemetery, reestablish historical roadways and curbing, and manage character-defining specimen trees throughout the historic site. ST JOHN Principal Ed Setzler led the preservation scoping study and served as AE Project Director for value analysis and schematic design for the landscape and infrastructure rehabilitation of the cemetery.  These services included archeological subsurface investigation, site grading and stormwater design, roadway replacement design, electrical utility and irrigation systems design, construction cost estimating, and NEPA and Section 106 compliance.