Before it became a quiet national cemetery, Mound City played a critical role in the Union war effort. 
 
Quiet Acres: The Story of the Mound City National Cemetery uncovers a remarkable Civil War story hidden in Southern Illinois. Here, the Union established an important naval station and military hospital. Wounded soldiers arrived from distant battlefields, gunboats were built and repaired along the river, and thousands of soldiers, sailors, veterans, and family members eventually found their final resting place beneath the cemetery’s headstones.
 
Through rare photographs, historical records, expert interviews, and personal recollections, Quiet Acres looks beyond names and dates to tell the human stories of the people who served, suffered, cared for the wounded, and preserved their memory. It is a moving introduction to an important chapter of American history that remains unfamiliar to many viewers.
 
Newly updated for 2026, the documentary is now presented in 4K resolution with new music, additional visuals, and sweeping drone footage that reveals the cemetery and surrounding landscape from an entirely new perspective. The original 2007 interviews have also been carefully upscaled to blend more naturally with the newly recorded 4K material—preserving the voices at the heart of the original production while giving the film a renewed visual life.
 
The Quiet Acres flash drive includes both USB and USB-C connections for convenient viewing on a computer or a television equipped for USB media playback.
 
Viewing time: 29 minutes