| Field Trip To Mt. Hope Cemetery. |
| All of our team made the trip to Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. The cemetery is the oldest municipal cemetery in the United States. It is the resting place of many famous people including Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. The team spent several hours covering the 200 acres of the grounds. |
| Our main stop at the Mt. Hope Cemetery was the Civil War Veteran's section containing almost 400 graves.
Among these is the grave of Emory Eugene Burton, the great-great-grandfather of Coach Richard Hartmetz.
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| We visited Susan B. Anthony, the famous women's rights advocate, who also played a role in the Civil War.
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| Here is the burial place of Frederick Douglass, the famous abolitionist.
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| We found the grave of James A. Hard, the longest living Civil War combat veteran. He lived in Rochester until 1953
when he died at the age of 111. He was outlived by only one other Northern soldier and possibly only three Confederate soldiers,
although the authenticity of their claims was in doubt.
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| Several Generals were buried in Mt. Hope. General E. G. Marshall, General Isaac Ferdinand Quinby and General Charles Powers.
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| Next came the grave of Warren Carman of the 1st NY Cavalry, Company H, who won the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia on March 2, 1865 for capturing the enemy flag and several prisoners.
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| Then we found several other soldiers along the way who were killed in action at a very young age. George B. Grover, killed
on the military transport Matanzas in 1863, Charles D. Howell, killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862, and Lieutenant
William Kidd Jr., who died in the Battle of Bull Run in 1862.
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| Other famous people from the Civil War period interred at the cemetery include Freeman Clark, the Comptroller of the Currency
during the Lincoln administration, Alfred Ely, a U.S. Congressman who was captured at the Battle of Bull Run and held prisoner
for six months, Dr. Josephus Requa, the inventor of the first machine gun, and Henry R. Selden, who was one of the organizers of
the Republican party and who was offered the office of Vice President by Abraham Lincoln.
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