Santa Fe Trail
Fort Lyon National Cemetery, CO

Named for the first Union General to die in the Civil War, Nathaniel Lyon, the Fort Lyon National Cemetery was established in 1887 but abandoned in 1897. The remains of soldiers were then moved to the Fort McPhearson National Cemetery in Nebraska. Almost a decade later, the buildings at the site were converted to a sanatorium to treat soldiers with tuberculosis and burials began again in 1907. Several Civil War veterans are buried here.