When we got back from Washington Park last night, I did a bit of research on it and found out it had been a series of cemeteries before 1855 when it was turned into the park. Bodies were reinterred in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery. My buddy Denny said that the Proctor and Gamble and Kroger of those companies are buried there.
Looked the cemetery up and found quite a list of other notables including Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and a whole lot of Union generals (and even one Confederate one) were there. Two of the Union names particularly jumped out at me as having Fort Fisher and Wilmington connections.
Godfrey Weitzel was involved in the the first attack on Fort Fisher. If I recall, he was supposed to be in command until his commanding general, Ben Butler, superceded him. The other one was Jacob D. Cox who was very involved in the capture of Wilmington in the five weeks following the fall of Fort Fisher.
We're Off to see Them in a Little Bit. --Old B-R'er
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