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The Woodlands Cemetery
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4000 WOODLAND AVENUE
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104, USA
Website: http://www.woodlandsphila.org/
The Woodlands Cemetery, incorporated in 1840 on the grounds of the historic Hamilton Mansion, built circa 1788, is the gravesite of many individuals associated with the Civil War. Among those veterans buried at the Woodlands are Maj. Gen. David Bill Birnay, Dr. John Hill Briton, Sidney George Fisher, Adm. Charles Stewart, Mary Grew, and Emily Bliss Souder. GAR markers mark the graves of other Civil War veterans. The cemetery grounds overlook the Schuykill River, used to transport Union soldiers wounded at Gettysburg to nearby Satterlee Hospital, the largest U.S. Army hospital used during the Civil War. The hospital was located in nearby Clark Park.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The historic site is the only documented, accessible and intact stop on the Underground Railroad open to the public, located in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | This was the historic site of Satterlee Hospital, which treated over 120,000 sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The cemetery contains graves of many distinguished Civil War-era personalities, including Gen. George G. Meade.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | This National Park preserves and protects the Gettysburg battlefield and the Soldiers' National Cemetery, site of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The museum contains an extensive collection of Civil War artifacts, battle relics, personal memorabilia, paintings, documents, and photographs that were initially assembled by the veterans who formed Post 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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