Mount Olivet Civil War Bench

A bench here honors the Union dead in the one cemetery Congress ever made. Mount Olivet was created by federal act in 1874, on twenty acres carved from the Fort Douglas reserve, so that Utah's non-Mormons — soldiers, miners, merchants, five Protestant congregations — would have ground apart from the church-run city cemetery. Among the graves are Civil War veterans who came west with the Union Army, including men of the U.S. Colored Troops who served, then settled, far from the war that freed their people. The bench marks a Utah few expect.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 1.4 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.4 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.5 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Liberty Park — 1.6 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Mount Olivet Civil War Cannon — steps away
• Mount Olivet G.A.R. Obelisk — steps away
• Keith M. Engar — 0.3 mi
• David O. McKay — 0.3 mi