Friday, June 3, 2011

GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY'S CIVIL WAR VETERANS PROJECT ON VIDEO

Jeff Richman, Green-wood Cemetery Historian, and Terry Svensen, a volunteer, talk about the Civil War Project: identifying Civil War veterans buried in the cemetery and installing gravestones for those who had none.

"When the project began, researchers believed, based on earlier informal searches, that there were approximately 500 Civil War veterans interred here." In the end, they discovered that 4,600 veterans are buried in the cemetery.