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Jeffrey Richman

Employees of Green-Wood Cemetery install a headstone over the previously unmarked grave of a Civil War veteran at Green-Wood Cemetery in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC Project IDs More Than 4,000 Civil War Graves In Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery

The 478-acre expanse of greenery and statuary covering the cemetery’s rolling hills is believed to be the final resting place of about 8,000 Civil War veterans.

2011/05/28

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