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1. FTSTNC_140712_53.JPG: Battleground National Cemetery During the late evening of July 12, 1864, 40 Union soldiers that perished while defending Washington, DC from a two-day Confederate attack (known as the Battle of Fort Stevens) were laid to rest here in what was once an apple orchard. President Abraham Lincoln, who attended the burial ceremony, dedicated the land as hallowed ground, making Battleground National Cemetery one of America's smallest national cemeteries. Between the 1870s and the early 1900s, a Superintendent's Lodge, rostrum, flagpole, and regimental monuments were added to the cemetery to pay tribute to the brave men who sacrificed all to preserve this nation and its capital city. In addition to the fallen soldiers, the cemetery also holds the remains of the wife and three children of Augustus Armbrecht, the original caretaker of the cemetery.
2. FTSTNC_140712_58.JPG: Abraham Lincoln at the Battle of Fort Stevens, ca 1892
3. FTSTNC_140712_70.JPG: Eugenie de Land Saugstad 1888 [?]
4. FTSTNC_140712_83.JPG: Abraham Lincoln at the Battle of Fort Stevens, ca 1892 by Eugenie de Land Saugstad President Lincoln is shown visiting Fort Stevens during the battle on July 12, 1864 as he comes under enemy fire while standing on the parapet. The artist's father knew Lincoln as a boy and created the wooden frame. Eugenie De Land Saugstad studied and worked in the area but is best known for her work as a graphic artist making World War I posters and propaganda for the government. The painting was donated by the artist to the Lincoln Museum which became Ford's Theatre National Historic Site.
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Wikipedia Description: Battleground National Cemetery
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Battleground National Cemetery is a military burial ground, located along Georgia Avenue near Fort Stevens, in Washington, D.C.'s Brightwood neighborhood. The cemetery is managed by the National Park Service, together with other components of Rock Creek Park.

Battle of Fort Stevens:

The Battle of Fort Stevens, which took place on July 11-12, 1864, marked the defeat of General Jubal Anderson Early's Confederate campaign to launch an offensive action against the national capital. During the battle, 59 soldiers were killed on the Union side. There were approximately 500 casualties on the Confederate side of the battle.

Burials:

After the battle, Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs seized one-acre of farm land to use for burying the dead. Under direction from President Abraham Lincoln and Meigs, forty were buried on the evening of July 12 on the battlefield site. That night, Lincoln came to the site to dedicate it as the Battleground National Cemetery. It was declared that anyone who fought in the battle was permitted to be buried at the location. But only one veteran of the battle, Edward R. Campbell, was buried in the cemetery in March 1936 at the age of 92. The family that lived in the caretaker's house on the site are also buried at the cemetery.

In addition to the grave markers, the cemetery includes four monuments to units that fought at Fort Stevens, including the 25th New York Volunteer Cavalry, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry, 122nd New York Infantry, and the 150th Ohio National Guard.

Administration:

The piece of land was previously part of a fruit orchard owned by farmer James Malloy. When he returned to his land after the dust cleared from the battle, Malloy was upset that his land was taken and challenged the action. Through an act of Congress passed on February 22, 1867, the land was acquired and officially transferred to the government on July 23, 1868 with payment ...More...
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2014 photos: Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA), Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles). Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers". Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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