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Cemetery historian and documentarian Chris Haugh will lead this insightful walking tour which features former residents who participated in, or experienced first-hand, the American Civil War. Mount Olivet was opened less than a decade before the conflict and possessed a contract with the federal government to bury here the dead of both armies who passed away in Frederick's "one vast hospital." Many local veterans survived the horrors of war and came back to Frederick to continue their lives in peaceful times. Many would be laid to rest here in family lots. Soldiers such as Gen. James Cooper and Col. Henry Cole, along with civilians like Barbara Fritchie, Rev. Daniel Zacharias and Glenn Worthington, played unique roles in Civil War lore and they, too, repose here. 

This tour is $20.00 per person. Please note: the tour will begin at the Key Chapel (located 100 yards behind the Francis Scott Key monument).