Road Trippin' Through History: Civil War Notables Buried at Philadelphia's West Laurel Hill Cemetery

Here are four other Civil War folk:

OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL  (1839-1921)-- Claims he was the first Union soldier wounded by enemy activity in the war after receiving a bruise on his head after being hit with an object thrown by a Confederate sympathizer as his regiment marched through Baltimore to relieve Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1861.

CLARISA F. DOYLE  (1832-1921)--Army nurse during Civil War.  President of National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War.

JOHN TROUT GREBLE  (1834-1861)--  First USMA graduate killed at Battle of Big Bethel.

HERMAN HAUPT  (1817-1905)--  Union general and engineer.  Revolutionized U.S. military transportation, particularly with the railroads.

--Old Seceh

Others on 20 Most Significant Events Affecting the War-- Part 2: Moving Capital to Richmond

**  Slavery would have died out eventually, possibly by 1900.

**  Movement of Confederate capital from Montgomery to Richmond was a really bad move.  It deemphasized the importance of the Western Theater  Richmond as capital would secure Virginia for the Confederacy.  It was now, however, too close to Washington, D.C., and too hard to defend.

**  The North's Herman Haupt and his control and use of railroads was a big help in their cause.

**  Creation of the U.S. Military Rail Roads.

**  The firing of Simon Cameron

**  Dred Scott Decision and the Fugitive Slave Act.

--Old Secesh