Born 21 Jun 1826 in New Castle Delaware, Died 13 Oct 1860 in New Mexico Territory. Regiment of Mounted Rifles, US Army. Enlisted May 1846 during the Mexican-American War. Final Campaign- Navajo Wars, New Mexico Territory. Killed at the head of his troops while charging a band of Navajo at the head of the Canon…
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Lt. Milton Ernest Ricketts
USS Yorktown (CV-5) Killed in Action on 8 May 1942 while onboard the USS Aircraft Carrier Yorktown during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Died of mortal wounds received when a Japanese shell exploded in the area of his detachment. Buried at Sea with full honors. Memorialized on the “Tablets of the Missing” located in the American…
Maj. James Baido
Medical Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. Killed in action on 27 Nov 1950, near Hill 1221 when the CCF ambushed his unit as it attempted to travel from Hudong-ni to the P’ungnyuri Inlet. Maj. Baido’s remains were never recovered. He is classified as MIA with his case “Deferred.” He is memorialized on the Courts…
LTJG Richard H. Seth
You Are Not Forgotten
Memorial Garden of Remembrance
Since the dawn of Maryland as a British colony in the early 17th century, its farmers, millers, merchants, citizen-soldiers, and their diverse lines of descendants have taken up the mantle of patriotic service to ensure that freedom and security for themselves, their families, their state, and their country would endure in perpetuity. Maryland’s veterans have…
Merchant Marine Robert Seager, II
Born 12 Sep 1924 in Nanking, China. Dr. Robert Seager, II was an award-winning historian, educator, and author. He wrote and edited numerous books and articles on American history, including “Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan” and “The Papers of Henry Clay.” Dr, Seager also founded the University of Baltimore Graduate School.
Pvt. Bartholomew DeGoey
Major William Pinkney’s 1st Rifle Battalion. Veteran of the Battle of North Point in Baltimore Co., 12 Sep 1814. Carpenter by trade.
Pvt. David Mumma
Capt. Graybell’s Co. German Battalion, Continental Troops. Prominent Baltimore Merchant. Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 17 Feb 1753 to David and Anna (Kauffman) Mumma, Sr. David would relocate with his parents to Baltimore County around 1770, becoming a prominent merchant in the years following the war. He would die on 13 Oct 1816, and…
Pvt. Asahel Hewitt
Col. George W. Hughes’ MD & DC Volunteers. Brick Mason by trade. Asahel Hewitt was born to Elmer and Elizabeth (Hunt) Hewitt in Baltimore on 19 Feb 1832. He would marry Catherine Jane Hartman on 23 Sep 1851. Catherine would die just two years after their 5th child in 1862. After moving about the mid-west…
Sgt. John Knox
Medal of Honor Recipient Co. I, 5th US Infantry. 20 Years Service, 1873-1893. Native of Iowa, enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Born: ca. 1850 Burlington, IA – Died 10 Jul 1895 in Baltimore, MD John Knox was a member of Co. I, 5th US Infantry, serving 20 years before his retirement on 22 Jun 1893….