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	In Memory of Veterans 1/30 sec @ f/11, ISO 400, Nikkor 24-70mm, f/2.8 @ 70mm. Founded in 1863 at the height of the Civil War, Crown Hill Cemetery is nation's third largest non-government cemetery. Over 200,000 persons are buried and entombed at Crown Hill, including President Benjamin Harrison, poet James Whitcomb Riley, three U.S. vice-presidents (Thomas A. Hendricks, Charles W. Fairbanks, Thomas Riley Marshall), eleven Indiana governors, fourteen United States Senators, and over a dozen generals of the Civil War. In 1933, 1,616 Confederate soldiers who died while prisoners of war at Camp Morton (1862-1865) in Indianapolis were reburied here from Greenlawn. Their graves are memorialized at Crown Hill by a large granite monument and ten smaller ones with bronze plaques bearing the names and units of those interred at this location. Rona L. Schwarz