Board oversaw maintenance of Washington Cemetery at Hagerstown, Maryland, where Confederate dead of battles of Antietam and South Mountain were buried. At Cemetery, 2,468 bodies were interred. Of this number, 346 have been identified.

Cemetery's Board of Trustees was chartered in 1870 (Chapter 213, Acts of 1870). Originally, it was to have had five members: three from Maryland and one each from Virginia and West Virginia. Virginia and West Virginia contributed to cost for funding and maintaining Cemetery initially and so were given a place on Board. In over one hundred and thirty years, however, neither Virginia nor West Virginia appointed a representative.

Board's three Maryland members were appointed to three-year terms by Governor.

Board of Trustees was abolished in Oct. 2010 (Chapter 29, Acts of 2010). Responsibility for supervising Cemetary was assigned to Department of Veterans Affairs.