I have been writing about this cemetery in my Cooter's History Thing blog. Click on that blog to the right of this under My Blogs. You can find out about Cubs fans, a Spanish-American War monument, Wanda Stropa, Anton Cermak and the SS Eastland Disaster.
From the October 11, 2020, Chicago Tribune "Inside Bohemian National Cemetery with 'Cemetery Lady' Helen Sclair" by Kori Rumore.
This 124-acre cemetery was set up to bury people from Bohemia in the present day Czech Republic. Today the Chicago cemetery has over 120,000 burials.
One of the places in the cemetery is the Civil War Veterans Monument.
It features a bronze statue of a private soldier in fatigues holding a color staff in one hand and a bayoneted musket in the other and represents Czech immigrants who fought for their adopted country during the Civil War.
The inscription underfoot reads, "Pro nouvou vlast," meaning "For our new country."
A plaque at ground level includes the names of 18 Bohemian veterans of the Civil War buried u=in the cemetery.
An estimated 5,000 people turned out for the commemoration of the monument -- said to be the first Bohemian soldiers' monument in America -- on May 29, 1892, which was the first Memorial Day observed at the Bohemian cemetery.
--Old Secesh
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