{"id":3701,"slug":"reddy-gray-burial-site-loudon-park-national-cemetery-baltimore-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Reddy Gray's grave is the enlisted slave — the 1863 escape that became the '64 enlistment, the 'slave when enlisted' on the muster roll. The regiment was the fight — the 39th USCT at Petersburg and Richmond, the Fort Fisher capture that he fought. The cemetery is the first — the VA burial that's the Network to Freedom site, the other Black soldiers who rest with him.","The names were the shifting — Redmond, Redman, Reverdy, the identity that was his own to choose. The post-war was the community — the Odd Fellows, the fair judge, the Baltimore life after the war. Gray's grave is the marked — the headstone for Company B, the 1922 death that's the record.","The file keeps Gray's grave: the 1863 escape, the 39th USCT service, the Loudon Park burial, and the multiple names.","Gray's grave is the archive's Baltimore file — the soldier who enlisted free."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Gray's grave is the archive's Baltimore file — the enslaved-turned-soldier.","A grave keeps its muster — the file's suggestion being that Gray's hold is the record: the 'slave when enlisted' notation, the battles he fought, and the cemetery that's the first VA UGRR site."]}],"name":"Reddy Gray Burial Site, Loudon Park National Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","MILITARY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["cemeteries","dark-history"],"desc":"The USCT soldier’s grave—where the self-emancipated veteran rests.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Reddy Gray Burial Site, Loudon Park National Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The USCT soldier’s grave—where the self-emancipated veteran rests. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Baltimore","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.300032,"lon":-76.610476,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Reddy Gray Burial Site, Loudon Park National Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Gray’s service is documented. A cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public cemetery; generally open during daylight hours. Be respectful of active burials; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}