Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

Notable burials

• Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.
• Effingham Lawrence, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• several mayors of New Orleans
• Dr. Joseph J. Holt, head of the state board of health in the 1880s
• Confederate Generals Young Marshall Moody, who died of yellow fever in 1866, Thomas M. Scott, and James Argyle Smith
• Confederate supporter and resister of Union occupation William Bruce Mumford, who was hanged for tearing down a United States flag during Union Army occupation of New Orleans during the American Civil War
• Union Army Brigadier General and Brevet Major General William Plummer Benton, who was Collector of Internal Revenue in the City of New Orleans after the Civil War and died of yellow fever in 1867
• jazz musician Leon Roppolo
• novelist John Kennedy Toole
• soprano Thaïs St Julien
• Judge A. J. McNamara of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1982 to 2001 and Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• There are nine British Commonwealth service personnel, registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who are buried or specially commemorated here - four from World War I and five from World War II.

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