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Native Americans at the Site
- “Archaeologists Discover 13,000-year-old artifact.” Alexandria Times 16 Aug. 2007.- African-American Soldiers in the Civil War
- Convalescents of L’Ouverture Hospital and Its Branches and Soldiers of the U.S. Army. Letter to Major Edwin Bentley. 27 Dec. 1864. Alexandria Archaeology Museum., Alexandria, Virginia.
- Miller, Edward A. Jr. “Volunteers for Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers in Alexandria National Cemetery, Part I.” Historic Alexandria Quarterly Fall 1998.
- Miller, Edward A. Jr. “Volunteers for Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers in Alexandria National Cemetery, Part II.” Historic Alexandria Quarterly Winter 1998. The Cemetery
- “1866 Record of Deaths and Burials (The Gladwin Record).” The Library of Virginia, Archives and Records. 1863-1868., Alexandria, Virginia.
- Cressey, Pamela. “Historic Design and Character of Alexandria Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery.” 5 Sep. 2007. updated 4 January 2008. Alexandria Archaeology Museum., Alexandria, Virginia.
- Cressey, Pamela. “Historic References to the Name of the Cemetery.” 7 Nov. 2007. updated 4 January 2008. Alexandria Archaeology Museum., Alexandria, Virginia.- Post-Civil War Destruction and Desecration
- “Alexandria Affairs: Uncanny Sight in a Graveyard.” Washington Post. 29 Mar. 1892., Washington.
- Cressey, Pamela. “Historic References to the Name of the Cemetery.” 7 Nov. 2007. updated 4 January 2008. Alexandria Archaeology Museum., Alexandria, Virginia. - Miller, T. Michael. “A Time for Remembrance—The Contraband Cemetery.” Date unknown. Office of Historic Alexandria., Alexandria, Virginia.
- Miller, T. Michael. “Historical News Flash: Freedmen and Contraband Burial Ground Identified in Alexandria, Virginia.” 11 Jan. 1991. Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Virginia.
- “Proposed New Motel at Jones Point Bridge Site.” Washington Post. 18 Oct. 1953., Washington.