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ALBANY RURAL CEMETERY
1. Brig. Gen. Adolph von Steinwehr (1822-1877); lot 13, sec 106
Prussian Soldier; immigrated to the US and served as Colonel in the 29th NY.
Promoted to Brigadier General, he was in command of the 2nd Division of the
11th Corp in the Army of the Potomac. Fought at Shenandoah Valley, suffered
heavy losses at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville and the third day at
Gettysburg where he helped repel Picketts Charge. He constructed the Union
defenses at Gettysburg and was given substantial credit for winning the battle. He
went west with the 11th Corp in 1864 and fought at the Battle of Chattanooga and
Wauhatchie. After the war he was a geographer and cartographer, taught at Yale.
(One of Gettysburgs main roads is named Steinwehr Avenue to honor General von
Steinwehr.)
2. Thurlow Weed (1797-1882); lot 1, sec 109
One of the founders of the Republican Party; Editor of the Albany Evening Journal;
NY Assemblyman; At the beginning of the Civil War Union forces seized the British
mail ship Trent and removed and arrested two Confederate officials who were
intended to be the Confederacys ministers to France and England. Weed was
sent to Britain and France by Abraham Lincoln to mollify the leaders of the two
countries and urge against their support of the Confederacy. (Thurlow Terrace)
3. Capt. Willard Glazier (1841-1905); lot 26, sec 29
Harris Light Cavalry (Albany Unit). He joined the Union Army with his college
military class at the State Normal School at Albany (now State University of New
York at Albany). He was captured and imprisoned in a variety of southern jails.
Although a prisoner-of-war, he survived the war and became a famous author. His
book on his imprisonment and escape outsold Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms
Cabin the largest selling popular book at the time.
4. Erastus Corning (1794-1872); lot 2, sec 31
Founder of the New York Central Railroad, at the time it was founded it was
capitalized for $23 million making it the largest corporation in America. Director
of the Michigan Central Railroad and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad,
he owned Albany Ironworks and Rensselaer Ironworks (plates and bars for the
Civil War ironclad Monitor were cast and rolled here); State Senator (1842),
Congressman (1857) during the Civil War, Mayor (1834).
5. John Swinburne (1820-1889); lot 11, sec 30
Physician, served in the Civil War, Medical Director of New York Harbor; Mayor
(1883), Congressman, Albanys Almshouse Physician, Professor at Albany Medical
College. He ran American Ambulance (trauma hospital) in Paris, France during the
Franco-Prussian War (1870). (Swinbourne Park).
6. Maj. George S. Dawson (c1838-1864); lot 1, sec 33
10th NY, 43rd NY (Albany Unit), 2nd NY Artillery. Son of George Dawson, editor of
the Albany Evening Journal. Died at Petersburg, VA., Dec. 6, 1864, 24 years old.
7. Col. Michael K. Bryan (1822-1863); lot 4, sec 43
Led Albanys 25th Regiment that included the Albany Republican Artillery and the
Albany Burgesses Corps in reporting to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott within
days of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. His regiment was the second
regiment to leave Washington and cross Long Bridge into Virginia at the start of
the war. He built Fort Albany to protect the road to Washington. He died at the
battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, June 14, 1863.
8. Brig. Gen. James Clay Rice (1828-1864); lot 11, sec 42
44th NY (Albany Unit); 39th NY; fought in the Peninsular Campaign, Second Bull
Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg where he was one of the heroes of the battle of
Little Round Top, Wilderness, died in action at the Battle of Spotsylvania, May
1864, his 20th battle. His last letter to his mother said: One cannot fall too early,
if, having Christ, he dies for his country.
9. Col. George W. Pratt (1830-1862); lot 3, sec 44
NY State Senator, Quartermaster General of NY, son of Zadock and Abagail Pratt of
Prattsville, involved in tanning, banking and farming, 20th NY (Ulster Guard), died
from wounds received leading his regiment at 2nd Bull Run, age 32.
10. Anna M. Edson Worden ( 1872-1895); lot 16, section 15
Wife of Commander John Lorimer Worden Jr. - son of Commander John Lorimer
Worden commander of the USS Monitor. Following the battle between the USS
Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merrimac), Commander Worden was frequently
back in the Albany Area supervising the construction of additional monitors.
On April 13, 1871, his son, Commander John Lorimer Worden Jr. married Anna
Edson at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Albany. They lived at 52 North Pearl Street,
Albany. On February 5, 1872, Anna died in childbirth and she and the unborn
child are buried on the Edson family plot.
11. Corp. Robert H. King (1845-1865); lot 15, sec 18
Navy landsman assigned to Pickett Boat #1 commanded by Commander William Cushing.
Awarded the Medal of Honor for successfully sinking the ironclad CSS Albemarle.
Died shortly after being released from a Confederate prison.
12. Ira Harris (1802-1875); lot 3, sec 18
Judge; NY Assemblyman (1845-46); NY State Senator (1847); US Senator (1861-1867);
close friend of Abraham Lincoln, President of Union College, founder and President of the
University of Rochester, one of the founders and one of 3 members of the first faculty of
Albany Law School. His daughter was in the box at Fords Theater with the Lincolns when
Lincoln was shot. One of the original founders and Trustee of Albany Rural Cemetery he
drafted and proposed the Board resolutions dedicating the plot for General Philip Schuyler.
His grandson, Henry Riggs Rathbone was a Congressman from Illinois in 1923.
13. Brig. Gen. John Titcomb Sprague (1810-1878); lot 25, sec 13
Adjutant General of NY, Lieutenant US Marine Corps later Colonel US Army; served in the
war against Seminole Indians (1836-1846); Served in Texas and Florida; he was assigned
to the 7th US Infantry Civil War; Military Governor of Florida and head of the Freedmans
Bureau after the Civil War 1866-1868.
14. Lt. William Henry Pohlman (1842-1863); lot 2, sec 6
59th NY, fought at Chantilly, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, died of
wounds received at Gettysburg, age 22. His uncle was Rev. William Pohlman who
presided at the dedication of the Albany Rural Cemetery.
15. Col. Lewis O. Morris (1824-1864); lot 1, sec 9
Served in the Mexican War, fought Indians in Florida and Texas, led troops in the capture
of Ft. Macon, NC, fought at Spottsylvania with the 7th NY Heavy Artillery (Albany Unit),
died at Cold Harbor, VA, June 4, 1864. His great-grandfather was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
16. Bvt. Brig. Gen. Lewis Benedict (1817-1864); lot 38, sec 3
162nd NY. Attorney, Assemblyman, Albany City Attorney, Captured at Williamsburg he
spent months in a Confederate prison, released, led an attack on Port Hudson, killed
in action at Pleasant Hill, LA while commanding the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Army
Corps, in the Red River Campaign. (Medallion of Gen. Benedicts father is on the Benedict
plot executed by Erastus Dow Palmer.)
17. Brig. Gen. Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886); lot 8, sec 24
Quartermaster General of New York State during the Civil War, he was also responsible
for defense of New York Harbor, President of the United States.
18. Brig. Gen. John Cochrane (1818-1898); lot 15, sec 53
65th NY. Lawyer, 2 term Congressman, NY Attorney General. One of two Brig.
Generals who went to see Lincoln to tell him that General Burnside was incompetent
after Burnsides disastrous attack at Fredericksburg. He was nominated by the Radical
Democrat Party to run for Vice-President of the US with John Fremont against incumbent
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (1864) and Democratic nominee George
McClellan. Fremont withdrew before the election.
19. Civil War Plot
On June 7, 1862, the Trustees of Albany Rural donated a section to honor and inter
Albany County soldiers killed in action. The Trustees resolution read: a sufficient and
suitable piece of ground be set apart to inter the remains of officers and soldiers of
the Oddslot who have fallen or may fall in endeavoring to suppress the present
Rebellion. The Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Monument at Albany Rural
contains the names of 648 Albany County residents who were Killed in Action. The
bronze plates on the monument were cast from a melted down Civil War cannon.
20. John Flack Winslow (1810-1892); lot 1, sec 71
Managed Albany Ironworks in partnership with Erastus Corning. He met with President
Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Wells to convince them to build the
first Union iron-clad ship, the USS Monitor.
21. Samuel O. One Armed Berry (1839-1873); lot 19, sec 98
Partner of Marcellus Jerome Clarke otherwise known as Sue Mundy, Confederate
soldiers but later guerrillas, murderers and thieves. Their gangs included Bill Marion,
William Quantrill, James Younger and Frank James. They terrorized the residents of the
State of Kentucky during the Civil War, robbing, killing and raping many people. Berry
alone was convicted of 12 counts of murder and 6 counts of robbery although these were
probably but a small portion of his crimes. His sentence to be hanged was commuted to
10 years at hard labor at Albany County Jail where he died after serving 7 years.
22. Henry Burden (1791-1871); lot 4, sec 61
Iron mill owner, invented machines to make horseshoes, hook-headed railroad spikes, and
rolling iron into cylinders. His horseshoe machine could make sixty shoes in 1 minute;
previously it took 2 men 1 full day to make 60 horseshoes. His horseshoe machine was
considered critical during the Civil War.