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14th New Jersey Infantry Monument
This monument is located on the spot where the 14th New Jersey Infantry had encamped from 1862 to 1863, and where heavy fighting took place during the Battle of Monocacy on July 8,1864. The regiment was part of the Third Division of the Army of the Potomac's VI Corps that was hastily rushed by Union General Lew Wallace to halt the invading Confederates forces under General Jubal Early. The Union forces, numbering only about 5,800, fought the 18,000 man Confederate Army to a 24 hour stand still...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Abell, Arunah Shepherdson b. August 10, 1808 d. April 19, 1888
Journalist, Newspaper Publisher. He was the founder of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" and Baltimore "Sun" newspapers.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Cedar Area, Lots 19-21
Adams, Brockman b. January 13, 1927 d. September 10, 2004
US Congressman, US Senator. He was elected as a Representative from Washington to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1965 to 1977. He was later elected as a Senator from Washington to the United States Senate, serving from 1986 to 1993.
Broad Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, USA
Adenhart, Nick b. August 24, 1986 d. April 9, 2009
Professional Baseball Player. Born Nicholas James Adenhart, he was in his rookie season with the Los Angeles Angels when he was tragically killed in a hit and run auto accident. He had just pitched six innings of shut out baseball for the Angels and seemed destined to have a position in the starting rotation. Adenhart played high school baseball at Williamsport High in Maryland and was one of the nation's top prospects entering his senior year. He pitched four years in the minor leagues and...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Greenlawn Cemetery, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, USA
Adler, Charles b. June 20, 1899 d. October 23, 1980
Inventor. He was granted 60 patents in his lifetime, and invented numerous innovations such as an electric automotive brake, a traffic-actuated signal light, and other locomotive and auto safety devices.
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Agnew, Spiro Theodore b. November 9, 1918 d. September 17, 1996
39th United States Vice President, Maryland Governor. A Maryland lawyer and executive of Baltimore County, he was elected governor of Maryland in a three-way race in 1966. He served until 1969, having been picked by Richard M. Nixon to be his Vice Presidential running mate in 1968. He was elected with Nixon that year, and reelected in 1972. In 1973 he resigned the Vice Presidential Office after allegations of bribery from...[Read More]
Cause of death: Leukemia
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section 2, Garden of the Last Supper
Agnus, Felix b. July 4, 1839 d. October 31, 1925
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in Lyons, France, he was a veteran of the Franco-Austrian War, fighting under Emperor Napoleon III. Just after the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, he enlisted in the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (known as "Duryee's Zouaves"), being mustered in as Sergeant in Company H on April 25, 1861. He saw combat on the first significant ground action of the war...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Plot: Annandale Section, Lot 415
Albert, William Julian b. August 4, 1816 d. March 29, 1879
US Congressman. He was elected to represent Maryland's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1873 to 1875.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Andrews, Richard Snowden b. October 29, 1830 d. January 5, 1903
Andrews was an American architect and a Confederate artillery commander and diplomat during the American Civil War. Served as a Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Fought in a number of battles including the Seven Days Battle, where he was wounded. He is known best for his part in the Battle of Cedar Mountain (near Culpeper), Virginia on August 9th 1862. There, near the front, a Federal shell struck his right side, ripping a gaping hole in his abdomen...[Read More]
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 26
Andrews, William Noble b. November 13, 1876 d. December 27, 1937
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, commenced law practice in Cambridge, Maryland and served as State Attorney for Dorchester County from 1904 to 1911. He was a member of the State House of Delegates in 1914 and served in the State Senate from 1918 until 1919. In 1919, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress, serving until 1921. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he resumed the practice of law until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Washington Cemetery, Hurlock, Dorchester County, Maryland, USA
Ansel, Adm. Walter Charles b. August 25, 1897 d. November 26, 1977
US Navy Rear Admiral. Ansel graduated from Elgin High School in 1915 and entered the United States Naval Academy where he graduated with the class of 1918. During World War I he served on the patrol craft USS Rambler, which engaged in anti-submarine operations off the coast of France as well convoy escort duty. After the war he was assigned to Destroyer Escort Force out of Brest, France. In 1930 he attended the Navy War College and in 1931 he attended the Marine Corps Field Officer Course. At...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
Antonio, Sister. Mary
Roman Catholic Leader. One of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore, Maryland, which was the first Order of Religious Woman of African Ancestry.
New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Archer, John b. May 5, 1741 d. September 28, 1810
US Congressman. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Elected to represent Maryland as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1801 to 1807. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates in 1777, and 1779 to 1780. (Bio by: K)
Churchville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Churchville, Harford County, Maryland, USA
Archer, Stevenson b. February 28, 1827 d. August 2, 1898
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1867 to 1875. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates in 1854, Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Maryland in 1876, and Maryland State Treasurer from 1886 to 1890. In 1890 he was removed from office as state treasurer and charged with embezzling monies belonging to the state. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Churchville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Churchville, Harford County, Maryland, USA
Archer, Stevenson b. October 11, 1786 d. June 26, 1848
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1811 to 1817, and 1819 to 1821. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1809 to 1810, Justice of the Mississippi Territorial Supreme Court from 1817 to 1818, and State Court Judge from 1823 until his death in 1848. (Bio by: K)
Churchville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Churchville, Harford County, Maryland, USA
Armistead, George b. April 10, 1780 d. April 25, 1818
United States Army Officer. Served as Major and commander of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. He was in command of the Fort during the War of 1812 when the British unsuccessfully attempted to force its capitulation by an naval artillery bombardment. The attack was witnessed by Francis Scott Key, who immortalized it in the words of "The Star Spangled Banner". Major Armistead was the uncle of Civil War Confederate General Lewis Armistead, who is buried next to him. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Buried next to his nephew Confederate General Lewis Armistead who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg
Armistead, Lewis Addison b. February 18, 1817 d. July 5, 1863
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He began his career graduating form the US Military Academy in 1839 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Infantry. With the start of the Civil War, he resigned his commission, joined the Confederate Army and given the rank of Major. In late 1861, he was promoted Colonel and commanded the 57th Virginia Regiment in defense of the Blackwater Virginia, that winter. On April 1, 1862, he was promoted Brigadier General and distinguished himself for...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Armstrong, Annie b. July 11, 1850 d. December 20, 1938
Religious Figure. As founder of the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), she was a leader in Southern Baptist evangelization efforts for many years. Raised in a prominent Baltimore family, she was baptized in the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore at 19 and soon became a founding member of Eutaw Place Baptist Church, where she was to be active for a number of years. In 1880, Miss Annie heard a lecture on the plight of Indians living in Oklahoma; she and other ladies organized relief efforts, which...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section P, Grave 63
Arnold, Samuel b. September 6, 1834 d. September 21, 1906
Lincoln Assassination Conspirator. His role in the conspiracy was to help kidnap Abraham Lincoln, but he dropped out of the murder conspiracy two weeks before Lincoln was assassinated. Born in Washington, DC, the Arnold family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Samuel Arnold was raised, and he attended St. Timothy's Hall, a military academy, where he met John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited him in 1864 to join a plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln, to use Lincoln as exchange for several...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: pulmonary tuberculosis
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area P, Lot 40
Asbury, Francis b. August 26, 1745 d. March 31, 1816
Religious Leader. Served as the first general superintendent or bishop of American Methodism. He was born near Birmingham in England and came under Methodist influence at an early age. Asbury was accepted as a local preacher at the age of eighteen and joined the itinerancy four years later. At the 1771 Conference, he was one of five volunteers to go to America. At first subordinate to senior colleagues like Joseph Pilmore and Richard Boardman, within twelve months of his arrival Francis Asbury...[Read More]
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA

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