[citation needed] One of the landmarks of Frederick, the Episcopal graveyard, a family burying ground of some of the most famous personages of Maryland, was sold for commercial purposes.

These monuments honor significant historical people, events and the men and women who fought in many of the military conflicts the United States has been involved in.

[5]: 550–1  The monument was unveiled on June 2, 1881, to honor the soldiers of the Confederate army who fell in battles of the Civil War and who are buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

We cannot inscribe their names upon tablets of stone, but we may hope to read them in a purer and unchangeable record.”Rear panel: ”Their praises will be sung In some yet unmolded tongue, Far on in summers that we shall not see.”The statue was toppled, beheaded and splattered in red paint in June 2020.

The Francis Scott Key Memorial Association commissioned the American sculptor Alexander Doyle to create a monument suitable for the author of the national anthem of the United States.

Above the tablet is a medallion created by the New York City sculptor James E. Kelly that depicts Fritchie's profile, executed from an old time photograph, in front of a waving American flag.

[9] Fritchie, the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, patriotically defied Stonewall Jackson and his Confederate Army as they marched past her Frederick home on September 10, 1862.