Rose Hill Cemetery
....North and South Reunited For Eternity
Some of the Civil War notables buried here in Rose Hill Include:
Mary Landon Mason Alexander (1861-1946)- Second wife of Confederate General Edward Porter Alexander.
Bvt.
Brigadier General George Bell, USA (1828-1907) - Prominent officer in the Union's Commissary Department, responsible
for the daily feeding tens of thousands of Union soldiers.
Private Henry C. Bell, CSA (1840-1927), Brother of General
George Bell. In a classic "brother against brother" story, Henry served the Confederacy in the 1st Maryland Cavalry
Battalion.
Bvt. Brigadier General Horace Brooks, USA (1814-1890) - Prominent artillery officer, served in the Antietam
and Gettysburg Campaigns. Buried with him is his mother, Maria Gowen Brooks a celebrated poetess in the early 19th
Century.
Colonel Roger Ellsworth Cook, USA (1809-1893) - As a captain, Cook commanded Company A, 1st Maryland
Potomac Home Brigade Infantry Regiment, rising to the rank of colonel commanding the regiment. At the end of the war he
commanded the 13th Maryland Infantry Regiment.
Commander Donald McNeill Fairfax, USN (1821-1894) - Liberated
705 slaves from a captured slave ship while the lieutenant commander of USS Constellation. Arrested Confederate
emissaries Mason and Slidell in the "Trent Affair" in 1861. Commanded three ironclad warships in battle and later served
as Commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy. His wife, Josephine Foote Fairfax (1837-1918) was the daughter of prominent
Union Admiral Andrew Hull Foote.
John Stemple (1831-1863) - a local artist, he was killed by a stray bullet during the
July 6, 1863 Battle of Hagerstown, while perched on the roof of a hotel on Public Square, sketching the battle below.
Surgeon John M. Gaines, CSA (1837-1915) - First doctor on the scene of the murder of Col. Elmer Ellsworth in May, 1861.
Later served as surgeon of the 8th Virginia and later the 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment.
Major George Freaner, CSA
(1831-1878) - Freaner served in the 1st Virginia Cavalry and later served as an assitant inspector general on the staff of
Major General J.E.B. Stuart and later on the staff of Major General Wade Hampton. Freaner was one of the first trustees of
nearby Washington Confederate Cemetery.
Surgeon Jacob S. Maurer, USA (1837-1882) - Assistant Surgeon of the 77th
Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in 1862.
Colonel Edward Mobley, USA (1825-1906) - Commander of the 7th Maryland
Infantry Regiment in 1864 and 1865. Twice wounded.
Captain William H. Sidenstricker, USA (1840-1904) - A veteran of
the 1st Maryland Poromac Home Brigade Infantry and a veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg, he later commanded Company
E, 13th Maryland Infantry.
1st Lieutenant Melville R. Small, USA (1844-1864) - Adjutant of the 6th Maryland Infantry
Regiment. Mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek and died three weeks short of his 20th birthday.
Private
Cyrus P. Willhide, USA (1831-1890) - Served in Company D, 6th Maryland Infantry. Cited for bravery with 5 other men who
advanced in the trenches at Petersburg on March 25, 1865 and captured Confederate rifle pits in advance of a general
attack on the Confederate fortifications.
Surgeon Augustine S. Mason, CSA (1834-1911) - Dr. Mason was one of the highest ranking officers in the Confederate
Medical Corps, serving as Medical Director of the Department of Richmond from 1863 to 1865.
Marker is on South Potomac Street (State Highway 65) near Memorial Blvd West, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
