Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Mount Auburn and The Civil War

President’s Corner Sweet Auburn A publication of the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-547-7105 www.mountauburn.org Editorial Committee Bree D. Harvey, Editor Vice President of Cemetery & Visitor Services Jennifer J. Johnston, Managing Editor Webmaster, Media & Imaging Coordinator David P. Barnett, Contributing Editor President & CEO, Mount Auburn Cemetery Jane M. Carroll / Vice President of Development Dennis Collins / Horticultural Curator Candace Currie / Director of Planning & Sustainability Gus Fraser / Director of Preservation & Facilities Jenny Gilbert / Senior Gifts Officer Regina Harrison / Executive Assistant James Holman / Director of Cemetery Sales Tom Johnson / Family Services Coordinator Meg L. Winslow / Curator of Historical Collections Consultant Robin Hazard Ray Designer Elizabeth Bonadies Circa 1885 photograph Printer P+R Publications Cover Photo: 19th-century stereo view of the Mount Auburn Sphinx. Situated across from Bigelow Chapel, this great Civil War memorial was designed by Mount Auburn’s founder and president Jacob Bigelow and carved in granite by Martin Milmore. A gift to the Cemetery from Bigelow in 1872, it is the only war memorial in the United States in the form of a sphinx. In this Issue The Union of Abolitionists and Emancipationists in Civil War-Era Massachusetts / 2 Trustees of the Friends of Mount Auburn Preserving their Memory: Mount Auburn’s Civil War Heroes / 4 Mary Lee Aldrich, Chair, Cambridge, MA David P. Barnett, President & CEO, Boxborough, MA Sean McDonnell, Secretary & Treasurer, Cambridge Caroline Mortimer, Vice-Chair, Cambridge Remembering Dear Ones: Lowell’s Commemoration Ode / 6 Honorary Trustee of the Friends Highlights from the Historical Collections: The Sphinx / 10 Susan W. Paine, Cambridge The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery was established in 1986 to assist in the conservation of the Cemetery’s natural beauty and to promote the appreciation of its cultural, historic, and natural resources. Organized in 1990 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable trust, the Friends seeks financial support from its members, other individuals, foundations, corporations, and public agencies. It receives gifts for educational and inter- pretive programs and materials for the public, specific cultural projects, and operating support for horticultural rejuvenation and the preservation of the historic monuments, structures, and archival artifacts and records. The Friends has over 1,300 active members. Poetic Responses to the Civil War / 8 Reviving the Victorian Landscape / 12 Stories Behind the Stones: Zabdiel Boylston Adams, MD / 13 People & Happenings / 15 Remembering Blanche Linden / 19 Did You Know? / 20 Preservation of the Egyptian Revival Gateway / 21 Upcoming Events / Back Cover See more online at www.mountauburn.org 2 | Sweet Auburn

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