“This monument owes its existence, not to publick gratitude in our national government, nor to patriotick feelings of the citizens at large; but to the private friendship & admiration of the officers of the navy, who, of their own accord, assigned a portion of their pay to the erection of a memorial of actions as…
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Pvt. George Yellott
Col. James Biays’ 5th Cavalry Regiment. Veteran of the Battle of North Point, 12 Sep 1814. Native of Yorkshire, England. George Yellott was born 13 Oct 1775 in Dodworth, South Yorkshire, England to John and Hannah Ann (Hattersley) Yellott. Emigrated to Baltimore, MD with is parents in 1795. George married Bethia Burrell, daughter of Dr….
A Dark Chapter Turns a Page
”I pray you have the bodies of our Massachusetts soldiers, dead in battle, to be immediately laid out, preserved in ice and tenderly sent forward by express to me. All expenses will be paid by this Commonwealth.” – Governor John Albion Andrew, Massachusetts Just days after President Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 troops…
A Crime Most Heinous
Throughout the nearly 60 years as the seat of Baltimore County’s government and court, Joppa was witness to a large number of criminal trials and executions. Many who died by the noose still lie in the old graveyard behind what is the Church of the Resurrection on Rumsey Island; the site of Old Joppa. One…
RM3 John Marshall Knapp
Radioman Third Class, US Navy. Enlisted 12 Jun 1918, Honorably Discharged 30 Sep 1921. Insurance Agent by Trade. Born in Baltimore on 6 April 1899, the son of Alexander Payson and Mary (Thomas) Knapp, Sr. John married Marjorie Holden Benners in Westchester, NY on 26 Sep 1934. John died in Ashville, NC on 14 May…
Darius Wheeler
Musician (Drummer Boy), Capt. Peters’ Co., 51st Regiment, Maryland Militia. Member and Marshall of the “Old Defenders” Association of Baltimore. One of the last surviving members of the association. Master Brick Mason by trade. Deacon at First Christian Church, Paca & Lombard Streets. Youngest child of William and Ann (Bond) Wheeler, born 15 Nov 1799…
Pvt. Aquila Randall
Capt. Benjamin Chew Howards 1st Mechanical Volunteers, 5th Regiment, Maryland Volunteers. Killed by British advance forces at the outset of the Battle of North Point, 12 Sep 1814. Believed by some to have fired the fatal shot that killed Major-General Robert Ross at North Point. Memorialized with a stone monument erected and dedicated by the…
Capt. George B. McLane
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…