One of two cannons at a plot in Mount Pleasant Cemetery where lies the body of Robert Grady, an artilleryman during the Spanish-American war.
October 9, 2012.
Category Archives: Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Look Out, Wyman!
Woman in Red
A woman in red tends the gravesite of her husband in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. May 18, 2012.
Amphora
A decorative stone amphora sits atop a plot marker at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Mill Brook at Mount Pleasant
Mill Brook runs through Mount Pleasant Cemetery to get to the Lower Mystic Lake. September 19, 2011.
Pillar
A monument stands brilliantly white (as do the houses behind it) in the afternoon sun at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September, 19, 2011.
Receiving Vault
The one hundred and seven year-old, and quite ominous looking, receiving vault at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Decorations
Decorations on headstones at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Blanchard
The Blanchard plot resting in the snow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. January 6, 2011.
“Ah! it sent to yonder graveyard many a once stout, noble form.”
General Nelson Monroe was a veteran of the Civil and Mexican-American Wars. In 1893, he published a book of “reminiscences of the days of dark secession 1861 and 1865″ entitled The Grand Army Button: A Souvenir. It can be viewed in full at archives.org.
The finale of the book is a poem called “The Dead Line” at Libby Prison about the horrors of internment at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. It can be read here.
The inscription on the back of the monument can be viewed at Pictures of Arlington’s facebook page.
The grave of author, poet, and most notably, soldier, General Nelson Monroe in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. January 6, 2011.
