OCTOBER 4,  PROGRAM:Oakland Cemetery - Where 19th Century Minnesota History Still Lives

Patrick Hill has been studying the Civil War for 27 years. He has published a number of articles on the topic in Minnesota History, Gettysburg, and Ramsey County History magazines. For the past 20 years he has served as a volunteer at Oakland Cemetery conducting tours of the participants in the Civil War and Dakota Conflict who are buried there.

Mr. Hill is a Saint Paul native and as a youth lived along Rice Street just outside the cemetery fence. His mother still resides a mere block from the gate. Despite involuntarily accompanying their father as children on numerous battlefield visits, to date none of Mr. Hill’s three adult sons have acquired any interest in the Civil War.