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Veterans' graves distinguish Loudon Park. "Government Lot" was acquired by the Federal Government in 1861 for the remains of Union soldiers, 2300 eventually being buried there. An army sergeant domiciled in a cemetery cottage kept watch over the plot for many years. Some 275 Confederate soldiers were buried in a section designated "Confederate Hill." Burials began when lot holders donated plots in 1862 , midway through the Civil War, the Cemetery subsequently exchanging these plots to insure a uniform section. The statue of a Confederate soldier guarded by two angels with wreath and torch was sculpted on the plot in 1870 by Adalsbert J. Volck . A monument to mothers and widows was eventually erected by The Ladies Confederate Memorial And Aid Society . Veterans' organizations held ceremonies and picnics at the "Hill" on Confederate Memorial Day , June 6th , until the early 1930s . William Wilkens , Mary Pickersgill , flag-maker of the banner hoisted over Fort McHenry in 1812 , H.L. Mencken , and Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. , the World War II hero shot down while piloting a single-seat plane in the Battle Of Midway , are also buried here. Notable monuments included the Ottmar Mergenthaler Monument for the German -born Baltimore inventor of the Linotype . Source: City of Baltimore PERSONS OF NOTE INTERRED
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