Tag Archives: Locust Grove Cemetery

What good are Union monuments (part 1)?

Not satisfied with tearing down Confederate monuments in 2020, some history haters turned their ignorance on Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederate monuments, many Americans might understand the reasons for demolishing, but vandalizing Lincoln and Grant statues? Lincoln never owned a slave and freed them all. Grant freed a slave soon after inheriting […]

Brave Hampden captain shed his life for his country

  Henry Crosby suffered that hot June day as his comrades attempted desperately to save his life. Today only an engraved name on the Civil War monument in Hampden’s Locust Grove Cemetery recalls the unsung hero who meant so much to his men 150 years ago this year. A single man when he mustered into […]