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August 28: On this date in 1865, Confederate General Robert Selden Garnett, the first general killed in battle during the Civil War, was secretly reinterred from Baltimore.

August 27: The Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn was fought across what would become Green-Wood’s grounds, as well as other parts of Brooklyn, on this date in 1776.

August 26: On this date in 1893, Oscar and Maggie Dietzel, husband and wife, died after their train, coming back from Manhattan Beach, was run up on and destroyed by a Rockaway Beach train.

August 25: Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, and teacher, was born on this date in 1918, and died in 1990.

August 24: Entertainment impresario William Niblo was interred on this date in 1878.

August 23: Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Confederate general from Mississippi, died on this date in 1900.

August 22: On this date in 1778, James Kirke Paulding, who coined the tongue-twister “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” was born.

August 21: Mary Johnson, who lived in slavery in Virginia, then upon her emancipation worked for years as a beloved servant for the Brown family, was interred in the Brown Lot on this date in 1879.

August 20: On this date in 1876, Frances Flora Bond Palmer, the only woman artist who worked for lithographers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, and whose art hung in more American homes than any other artist, died.

August 19: Robert Troup, who roomed with Alexander Hamilton at Kings College, was captured at the Battle of Brooklyn, and served as an aide to General Horatio Gates, was born on this date in 1757.