MD -- Silver Spring -- Grace Episcopal Church:
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- Description of Pictures: In 1874, the Rector of Grace Church coordinated the exhumation of the remains of 17 Confederate soldiers, many unidentified, to be buried in a common grave in the Grace Church cemetery. These were casualties of the 1864 attack on Fort Stevens. A monument was erected on the spot to mark the soldiers’ final resting place. In 1967, the Veterans of Foreign Wars built a brick wall around the monument.
In June, 2020, the Confederate monument was defaced and then toppled by BLM protesters. The memorial has not been replaced although there is now a marker indicating where the graves were.
I hadn't bothered stopping by since 2015 and figured it was time.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- GRACE_230107_11.JPG: Gravesite of
Seventeen Unknown Soldiers
who fell at the
Battle of Fort Stevens
Washington DC
July 12, 1864
- GRACE_230107_29.JPG: The Auburn School
Nurturing Unique Minds
- GRACE_230107_69.JPG: Gravesite of
Seventeen Unknown Soldiers
who fell at the
Battle of Fort Stevens
Washington DC
July 12, 1864
- Description of Subject Matter: Grace Episcopal Church was set up in 1855. The first church burned down to the ground in 1896. The third church was built in 1955.
At the time of the Battle of Fort Stevens, Grace Episcopal Church stood along Brookeville Pike and many of the Confederates marched past it. The Grace Episcopal Church that now stands in the area was constructed after a former structure burned in 1896. A new trolley line on Georgia Avenue forced the movement of the Confederate mass gravesite to its present location. The gravesite includes 17 unknown Confederate dead from the Battle of Fort Stevens. At the gravesite is a shaft, made of granite, marked simply "Confederate," that memorializes the Confederates who lost their lives in the Battle of Fort Stevens.
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