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Loudon Park National Cemetery
Library of Congress
Marker detail: Massachusetts troops entering Baltimore
c. 1861
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | National Cemetery (center panel)
In December 1861, the U.S. Sanitary Commission designated a small area of Loudon Park Cemetery for the burial of Union soldiers who died in Baltimore hospitals. The half-acre lot in the northeast corner . . . — — Map (db m135081) HM |
| | Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m135083) HM WM |
| | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . . . — — Map (db m135087) HM WM |
| | (west side)
To the Sons of Maryland who perished in preserving to us and posterity the “Government of the People, by the People for the People,” secured by our fathers, through the Union. This memorial is erected by her . . . — — Map (db m135094) WM |
| | (east side) Maryland’s tribute to her loyal sons who served in the United States Navy during the War for the Preservation of the Union.
(north side) Port Royal • November 7th, 1861 Monitor & Merrimack • March 9th, 1862 New Orleans . . . — — Map (db m135097) WM |
| | Erected by the Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.
[small plaque]
Department of MO. W.R.C.
Monument Committee
Ruth A. Graham
Florence J. Fink
Sallie A. Moore
Mary E. Wright
Clara A. Alford
Mary . . . — — Map (db m7048) HM |
| | Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of twenty-nine Confederate soldiers who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland, while prisoners of war, and whose remains were there buried, but subsequently removed to this section, where the individual . . . — — Map (db m7050) WM |
May. 9, 2024