VA -- Winchester -- Mt. Hebron Cemetery (plus Natl Cemetery):
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Description of Subject Matter: Part of the Third Battle of Winchester, this cemetery contains the remains of over 3,000 Confederate soldiers killed in nearby battles. Some of the Civil War notables buried here are the Ashby brothers (General Turner Ashby and Captain Richard Ashby) and the Patton brothers (George and Tazewell Patton, grandfather and grand-uncle of WWII General George Patton). Stonewall Confederate Cemetery is part of Mount Hebron Cemetery. Preceding from http://www.civilwar.org/TravelersInformation/TravelerDetail.asp?lngTravelersInformationID=622
The public cemetery here was dedicated on 1844. Over the years, various bodies were reinterred here from outlying graveyards. The oldest grave here is that of George Helm, 1723-1769.
Across the street is the National Cemetery
The land around Winchester National Cemetery was used for burials as early as 1862, but after the Civil War additional land was appropriated by the federal government and it was established as a National Cemetery in 1866. In 1870, the land was officially purchased from the land's owner.
Numerous Civil War battlefield cemeteries had their remains reinterred in Winchester, including those from the Battle of Winchester, the Battle of Front Royal, and the Battle of Harpers Ferry. The cemetery grounds underwent significant renovations during the 1930s, adding walls, maintenance buildings, and improving the headstones.
Winchester National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The above was from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_National_Cemetery
Various people, structures, and markers here:
Stonewall Cemetery: Considered the first dedicated Confederate cemetery. Since June 6, 1866, memorial services commemorating the 1862 date of Gen. Turner Ashby's death have been held annually at Stonewall Cemetery. There are 2,576 known and 829 unknown buried here. The Ashby Brothers were reburied here on October 31, 1866 and the Stars and Stripes in neighboring the Nationa ...More...
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera.
From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on).
In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year.
In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded.
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The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted.
Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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